From: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.17.y] mm/memory: do not populate page table entries beyond i_size
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:46:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251120164612.886562-1-kas@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2025112022-pretender-version-d5b3@gregkh>
Patch series "Fix SIGBUS semantics with large folios", v3.
Accessing memory within a VMA, but beyond i_size rounded up to the next
page size, is supposed to generate SIGBUS.
Darrick reported[1] an xfstests regression in v6.18-rc1. generic/749
failed due to missing SIGBUS. This was caused by my recent changes that
try to fault in the whole folio where possible:
19773df031bc ("mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()")
357b92761d94 ("mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround")
These changes did not consider i_size when setting up PTEs, leading to
xfstest breakage.
However, the problem has been present in the kernel for a long time -
since huge tmpfs was introduced in 2016. The kernel happily maps
PMD-sized folios as PMD without checking i_size. And huge=always tmpfs
allocates PMD-size folios on any writes.
I considered this corner case when I implemented a large tmpfs, and my
conclusion was that no one in their right mind should rely on receiving a
SIGBUS signal when accessing beyond i_size. I cannot imagine how it could
be useful for the workload.
But apparently filesystem folks care a lot about preserving strict SIGBUS
semantics.
Generic/749 was introduced last year with reference to POSIX, but no real
workloads were mentioned. It also acknowledged the tmpfs deviation from
the test case.
POSIX indeed says[3]:
References within the address range starting at pa and
continuing for len bytes to whole pages following the end of an
object shall result in delivery of a SIGBUS signal.
The patchset fixes the regression introduced by recent changes as well as
more subtle SIGBUS breakage due to split failure on truncation.
This patch (of 2):
Accesses within VMA, but beyond i_size rounded up to PAGE_SIZE are
supposed to generate SIGBUS.
Recent changes attempted to fault in full folio where possible. They did
not respect i_size, which led to populating PTEs beyond i_size and
breaking SIGBUS semantics.
Darrick reported generic/749 breakage because of this.
However, the problem existed before the recent changes. With huge=always
tmpfs, any write to a file leads to PMD-size allocation. Following the
fault-in of the folio will install PMD mapping regardless of i_size.
Fix filemap_map_pages() and finish_fault() to not install:
- PTEs beyond i_size;
- PMD mappings across i_size;
Make an exception for shmem/tmpfs that for long time intentionally
mapped with PMDs across i_size.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251027115636.82382-1-kirill@shutemov.name
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251027115636.82382-2-kirill@shutemov.name
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Fixes: 6795801366da ("xfs: Support large folios")
Reported-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 74207de2ba10c2973334906822dc94d2e859ffc5)
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
---
mm/filemap.c | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
mm/memory.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 751838ef05e5..bef514b60e0b 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -3743,13 +3743,27 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
unsigned long rss = 0;
unsigned int nr_pages = 0, folio_type;
unsigned short mmap_miss = 0, mmap_miss_saved;
+ bool can_map_large;
rcu_read_lock();
folio = next_uptodate_folio(&xas, mapping, end_pgoff);
if (!folio)
goto out;
- if (filemap_map_pmd(vmf, folio, start_pgoff)) {
+ file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
+ end_pgoff = min(end_pgoff, file_end);
+
+ /*
+ * Do not allow to map with PTEs beyond i_size and with PMD
+ * across i_size to preserve SIGBUS semantics.
+ *
+ * Make an exception for shmem/tmpfs that for long time
+ * intentionally mapped with PMDs across i_size.
+ */
+ can_map_large = shmem_mapping(mapping) ||
+ file_end >= folio_next_index(folio);
+
+ if (can_map_large && filemap_map_pmd(vmf, folio, start_pgoff)) {
ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
goto out;
}
@@ -3762,10 +3776,6 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
goto out;
}
- file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
- if (end_pgoff > file_end)
- end_pgoff = file_end;
-
folio_type = mm_counter_file(folio);
do {
unsigned long end;
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 0ba4f6b71847..75f3b66be1d3 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
#include <linux/gfp.h>
#include <linux/migrate.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
#include <linux/memory-tiers.h>
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
@@ -5371,8 +5372,25 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
return ret;
}
+ if (!needs_fallback && vma->vm_file) {
+ struct address_space *mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
+ pgoff_t file_end;
+
+ file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE);
+
+ /*
+ * Do not allow to map with PTEs beyond i_size and with PMD
+ * across i_size to preserve SIGBUS semantics.
+ *
+ * Make an exception for shmem/tmpfs that for long time
+ * intentionally mapped with PMDs across i_size.
+ */
+ needs_fallback = !shmem_mapping(mapping) &&
+ file_end < folio_next_index(folio);
+ }
+
if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd)) {
- if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
+ if (!needs_fallback && folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, folio, page);
if (ret != VM_FAULT_FALLBACK)
return ret;
--
2.51.0
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