+ mm-huge_memory-fix-use-of-null-folio-in-move_pages_huge_pmd.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

+ mm-huge_memory-fix-use-of-null-folio-in-move_pages_huge_pmd.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/huge_memory: fix use of NULL folio in move_pages_huge_pmd()
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     mm-huge_memory-fix-use-of-null-folio-in-move_pages_huge_pmd.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-huge_memory-fix-use-of-null-folio-in-move_pages_huge_pmd.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: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Subject: mm/huge_memory: fix use of NULL folio in move_pages_huge_pmd()
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 07:21:21 +0000

move_pages_huge_pmd() handles UFFDIO_MOVE for both normal THPs and huge
zero pages.  For the huge zero page path, src_folio is explicitly set to
NULL, and is used as a sentinel to skip folio operations like lock and
rmap.

In the huge zero page branch, src_folio is NULL, so folio_mk_pmd(NULL,
pgprot) passes NULL through folio_pfn() and page_to_pfn().  With
SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP this silently produces a bogus PFN, installing a PMD
pointing to non-existent physical memory.  On other memory models it is a
NULL dereference.

Use page_folio(src_page) to obtain the valid huge zero folio from the
page, which was obtained from pmd_page() and remains valid throughout.

After commit d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge
zero folio special"), moved huge zero PMDs must remain special so
vm_normal_page_pmd() continues to treat them as special mappings.

move_pages_huge_pmd() currently reconstructs the destination PMD in the
huge zero page branch, which drops PMD state such as pmd_special() on
architectures with CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL.  As a result,
vm_normal_page_pmd() can treat the moved huge zero PMD as a normal page
and corrupt its refcount.

Instead of reconstructing the PMD from the folio, derive the destination
entry from src_pmdval after pmdp_huge_clear_flush(), then handle the PMD
metadata the same way move_huge_pmd() does for moved entries by marking it
soft-dirty and clearing uffd-wp.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a1e787dd-b911-474d-8570-f37685357d86@lucifer.local
Fixes: e3981db444a0 ("mm: add folio_mk_pmd()")
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/huge_memory.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memory-fix-use-of-null-folio-in-move_pages_huge_pmd
+++ a/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2797,7 +2797,8 @@ int move_pages_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct
 		_dst_pmd = pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(_dst_pmd), dst_vma);
 	} else {
 		src_pmdval = pmdp_huge_clear_flush(src_vma, src_addr, src_pmd);
-		_dst_pmd = folio_mk_pmd(src_folio, dst_vma->vm_page_prot);
+		_dst_pmd = move_soft_dirty_pmd(src_pmdval);
+		_dst_pmd = clear_uffd_wp_pmd(_dst_pmd);
 	}
 	set_pmd_at(mm, dst_addr, dst_pmd, _dst_pmd);
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from chris@chrisdown.name are

mm-huge_memory-fix-use-of-null-folio-in-move_pages_huge_pmd.patch
selftests-mm-add-uffdio_move-huge-zeropage-pmd-regression-test.patch