The Linux Kernel Mailing List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>, Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] mm/page_owner: clamp skip_buddy_pages() PFN advance at MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:47:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260625014708.87386-2-ye.liu@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260625014708.87386-1-ye.liu@linux.dev>

The lockless buddy_order_unsafe() read can return a garbage order
value if the page is concurrently allocated between the PageBuddy
check and the private read.  If this bogus order is <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER,
skip_buddy_pages() would arbitrarily advance the PFN, potentially
jumping past a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary whose pfn_valid() check
would have caught an offline memory section.

In read_page_owner(), which relies solely on boundary-aligned
pfn_valid() to guard pfn_to_page(), skipping the boundary could
cause pfn_to_page() to access an unmapped mem_section.

Clamp the advance so it never crosses the next MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
boundary.  This is safe for all three callers: the pageblock-iterating
ones already handle boundary transitions in their outer loops, and
for read_page_owner() the worst case is one extra PageBuddy check per
1024 pages for a huge buddy block straddling the boundary.

Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <ye.liu@linux.dev>
---
 mm/page_owner.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
index ec9600025127..5c403bce35ce 100644
--- a/mm/page_owner.c
+++ b/mm/page_owner.c
@@ -435,6 +435,12 @@ void __folio_copy_owner(struct folio *newfolio, struct folio *old)
  * to skip less than the full buddy block, but that is acceptable for page owner
  * iteration purposes.
  *
+ * The lockless read of buddy_order_unsafe() can also return a garbage order if
+ * the page is concurrently allocated and PageBuddy is cleared between the check
+ * and the read. Clamp the advance at the next MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary so
+ * that a bogus order cannot carry @pfn into an unvalidated memory section,
+ * which would break callers that rely on boundary-aligned pfn_valid() checks.
+ *
  * Return: true if the page was skipped (caller should continue its loop),
  *         false if the page is not a buddy page and should be processed normally.
  */
@@ -446,8 +452,12 @@ static inline bool skip_buddy_pages(unsigned long *pfn, struct page *page)
 		return false;
 
 	order = buddy_order_unsafe(page);
-	if (order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER)
-		*pfn += (1UL << order) - 1;
+	if (order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER) {
+		unsigned long new_pfn = *pfn + (1UL << order);
+		unsigned long boundary = ALIGN(*pfn + 1, MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);
+
+		*pfn = min(new_pfn, boundary) - 1;
+	}
 
 	return true;
 }
-- 
2.43.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-06-25  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-25  1:47 [PATCH 0/2] mm/page_owner: fix TOCTOU races in lockless page state reading Ye Liu
2026-06-25  1:47 ` Ye Liu [this message]
2026-06-25  1:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot instead of PageMemcgKmem() to avoid TOCTOU VM_BUG_ON Ye Liu
2026-06-25  2:04 ` [PATCH 0/2] mm/page_owner: fix TOCTOU races in lockless page state reading Andrew Morton

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20260625014708.87386-2-ye.liu@linux.dev \
    --to=ye.liu@linux.dev \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=hannes@cmpxchg.org \
    --cc=jackmanb@google.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=mhocko@suse.com \
    --cc=surenb@google.com \
    --cc=vbabka@kernel.org \
    --cc=ziy@nvidia.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox