Re: [PATCH 0/2] mm/page_owner: fix TOCTOU races in lockless page state reading

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:47:03 +0800 Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev> wrote:

> Fix two TOCTOU races found during review of [1].
> 
> page_owner reads page state locklessly by design. In two places the
> code reads the same metadata twice — once as a guard, then again as
> a use — and the page can be concurrently reallocated between the two:
> 
> Patch 1: buddy_order_unsafe() in skip_buddy_pages() can return garbage
> if the page is allocated between PageBuddy() and the private read,
> causing the PFN to skip past a pfn_valid() boundary.  Clamp the
> advance at MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES.
> 
> Patch 2: PageMemcgKmem() in print_page_owner_memcg() re-reads
> folio->memcg_data and triggers VM_BUG_ON assertions if the page
> became a tail page or slab page.  Use the snapshot taken at entry.

That was fast.  I haven't pushed out mm-new yet, so Sashiko wasn't able
to apply these.

> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260623065234.31866-2-ye.liu@linux.dev/
> [2] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260623065234.31866-2-ye.liu@linux.dev

Nothing cites "[2]".    That's OK.