From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: [merged mm-stable] mm-page_vma_mapped-use-huge_ptep_get-for-hugetlb.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:43:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260731024341.B08411F000E9@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/page_vma_mapped: use huge_ptep_get() for hugetlb
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-page_vma_mapped-use-huge_ptep_get-for-hugetlb.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Subject: mm/page_vma_mapped: use huge_ptep_get() for hugetlb
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 11:41:58 +0000
check_pte() is the final validation step in page_vma_mapped_walk(). It
reads pvmw->pte with ptep_get() to decide whether the entry maps the PFN
range being walked. For hugetlb VMAs, that pointer refers to a hugetlb
entry.
On arches which provide their own huge_ptep_get() to dereference a huge
pte pointer, accessing via ptep_get() would cause pte_pfn(), pte_present()
etc to misbehave.
It is not clear whether this has a trivially visible effect to userspace.
Use huge_ptep_get() to dereference a huge pte pointer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260703114202.365553-6-dev.jain@arm.com
Fixes: ace71a19cec5 ("mm: introduce page_vma_mapped_walk()")
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Jun'ichi "Nick" Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/page_vma_mapped.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c~mm-page_vma_mapped-use-huge_ptep_get-for-hugetlb
+++ a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
@@ -107,7 +107,13 @@ again:
static bool check_pte(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw, unsigned long pte_nr)
{
unsigned long pfn;
- pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pvmw->pte);
+ pte_t ptent;
+
+ if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(pvmw->vma))
+ ptent = huge_ptep_get(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, pvmw->address,
+ pvmw->pte);
+ else
+ ptent = ptep_get(pvmw->pte);
if (pvmw->flags & PVMW_MIGRATION) {
const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pte(ptent);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dev.jain@arm.com are
mm-rmap-convert-page-folio-for-hwpoison-checks.patch
mm-rmap-add-try_to_unmap_poisoned_hugetlb_one.patch
mm-rmap-refactor-some-code-around-lazyfree-folio-unmapping.patch
mm-rmap-refactor-anon-folio-unmap-in-try_to_unmap_one.patch
mm-rmap-add-anon-folio-unmap-dispatcher.patch
mm-memory-move-pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed-into-memoryc.patch
mm-memory-batch-set-uffd-wp-markers-during-zapping.patch
mm-rmap-batch-unmap-file-folios-belonging-to-uffd-wp-vmas.patch
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