+ fs-proc-task_mmu-fix-pagemap_scan-written-state-for-pmd-holes.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

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

The patch titled
     Subject: fs/proc/task_mmu: fix PAGEMAP_SCAN written state for PMD holes
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     fs-proc-task_mmu-fix-pagemap_scan-written-state-for-pmd-holes.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/fs-proc-task_mmu-fix-pagemap_scan-written-state-for-pmd-holes.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
Subject: fs/proc/task_mmu: fix PAGEMAP_SCAN written state for PMD holes
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:42:33 +0100

PAGEMAP_SCAN reports an unpopulated PTE in a uffd-wp VMA as written, but a
range with no page table at all -- a PMD hole -- is skipped:
pagemap_scan_pte_hole() tests p->cur_vma_category, which never carries
PAGE_IS_WRITTEN, so the hole is neither reported nor (under
PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING) armed.

In a uffd-wp VMA, WP_UNPOPULATED installs uffd-wp markers when protecting
a range, allocating page tables as needed, so an unpopulated slot is
treated as written -- see the pte_none() handling in
pagemap_page_category().  A missing marker therefore means the range was
zapped, e.g.  via MADV_DONTNEED.  This applies to anon and shmem VMAs.

An anonymous THP is write-protected in place as a huge PMD, so a full-PMD
MADV_DONTNEED clears it to pmd_none -- a hole with no page table -- and
pagemap_scan_pte_hole() misses it.  For a MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON mapping
MADV_DONTNEED has fill-with-zeros semantics, so a write-tracking
checkpoint/migration tool (e.g.  CRIU) treats the range as unchanged and
keeps its previous contents; after restore or live migration the process
reads stale data instead of zeroes -- data corruption.

Report a hole in a non-hugetlb uffd-wp VMA as written, matching the
pte_none handling in pagemap_page_category(); the existing
PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING path then arms it via uffd_wp_range().

hugetlb is excluded: pagemap_hugetlb_category() reports an empty hugetlb
entry (huge_pte_none) as not-written, unlike pagemap_page_category(),
which reports pte_none as written.  pagemap_scan_pte_hole() fires for a
hugetlb slot only when it has no page table; keeping that not-written
matches how an allocated-but-empty hugetlb entry reads, so the hole and
the empty-entry cases agree within the VMA.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260715144234.442721-2-kirill@shutemov.name
Fixes: 2bad466cc9d9 ("mm/uffd: UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED")
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sashiko AI review <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260707151349.92143-1-kirill@shutemov.name
Cc: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/proc/task_mmu.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c~fs-proc-task_mmu-fix-pagemap_scan-written-state-for-pmd-holes
+++ a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -3049,12 +3049,28 @@ static int pagemap_scan_pte_hole(unsigne
 {
 	struct pagemap_scan_private *p = walk->private;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
+	unsigned long categories;
 	int ret, err;
 
-	if (!vma || !pagemap_scan_is_interesting_page(p->cur_vma_category, p))
+	if (!vma)
 		return 0;
 
-	ret = pagemap_scan_output(p->cur_vma_category, p, addr, &end);
+	/*
+	 * In a uffd-wp VMA an unpopulated range is treated as written:
+	 * uffd-wp registration populates page tables and installs markers
+	 * with WP_UNPOPULATED, so a missing marker means the range was
+	 * zapped. See the pte_none() handling in pagemap_page_category().
+	 *
+	 * hugetlb differs, see pagemap_hugetlb_category().
+	 */
+	categories = p->cur_vma_category;
+	if (userfaultfd_wp(vma) && !is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
+		categories |= PAGE_IS_WRITTEN;
+
+	if (!pagemap_scan_is_interesting_page(categories, p))
+		return 0;
+
+	ret = pagemap_scan_output(categories, p, addr, &end);
 	if (addr == end)
 		return ret;
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from kas@kernel.org are

fs-proc-task_mmu-fix-pagemap_scan-written-state-for-unpopulated-ptes.patch
mm-hugetlb-fix-swap-entry-corruption-when-clearing-uffd-wp-at-fork.patch
fs-proc-task_mmu-fix-pagemap_scan-written-state-for-pmd-holes.patch
mm-decouple-protnone-helpers-from-config_numa_balancing.patch
mm-rename-uffd-wp-pte-bit-macros-to-uffd.patch
mm-rename-uffd-wp-pte-accessors-to-uffd.patch
userfaultfd-test-uffd-vma-flags-through-the-vma_flags_t-api.patch
mm-add-vm_uffd_rwp-vma-flag.patch
mm-add-mm_cp_uffd_rwp-change_protection-flag.patch
mm-preserve-rwp-marker-across-pte-rewrites.patch
mm-handle-vm_uffd_rwp-in-khugepaged-rmap-and-gup.patch
userfaultfd-add-uffdio_register_mode_rwp-and-uffdio_rwprotect-plumbing.patch
mm-userfaultfd-add-rwp-fault-delivery-and-expose-uffdio_register_mode_rwp.patch
mm-pagemap-add-page_is_accessed-for-rwp-tracking.patch
userfaultfd-add-uffd_feature_rwp_async-for-async-fault-resolution.patch
userfaultfd-add-uffdio_set_mode-for-runtime-sync-async-toggle.patch
selftests-mm-add-userfaultfd-rwp-tests.patch
documentation-userfaultfd-document-rwp-working-set-tracking.patch
selftests-mm-add-pagemap_scan-test-for-thp-pmd-holes.patch