Re: [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] mm-filemap-fix-nr_pages-calculation-overflow-in-filemap_map_pages.patch removed from -mm tree

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

On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:02:09 +0800 Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:

> What happened to this fix patch? The commit message doesn't belong to my 
> original patch.

Crap, thanks for noticing.  At some point I must have pasted in the
changelog text from "mm/huge_memory: fix folio isn't locked in
softleaf_to_folio()".  Redone as below:



From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: mm: filemap: fix nr_pages calculation overflow in filemap_map_pages()
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:29:55 +0800

When running stress-ng on my Arm64 machine with v7.0-rc3 kernel, I
encountered some very strange crash issues showing up as "Bad page state":

"
[  734.496287] BUG: Bad page state in process stress-ng-env  pfn:415735fb
[  734.496427] page: refcount:0 mapcount:1 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x4cf316 pfn:0x415735fb
[  734.496434] flags: 0x57fffe000000800(owner_2|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x3ffff)
[  734.496439] raw: 057fffe000000800 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
[  734.496440] raw: 00000000004cf316 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[  734.496442] page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
"

After analyzing this page’s state, it is hard to understand why the
mapcount is not 0 while the refcount is 0, since this page is not where
the issue first occurred.  By enabling the CONFIG_DEBUG_VM config, I can
reproduce the crash as well and captured the first warning where the issue
appears:

"
[  734.469226] page: refcount:33 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000bef2d187 index:0x81a0 pfn:0x415735c0
[  734.469304] head: order:5 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
[  734.469315] memcg:ffff000807a8ec00
[  734.469320] aops:ext4_da_aops ino:100b6f dentry name(?):"stress-ng-mmaptorture-9397-0-2736200540"
[  734.469335] flags: 0x57fffe400000069(locked|uptodate|lru|head|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x3ffff)
......
[  734.469364] page dumped because: VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO((_Generic((page + nr_pages - 1),
const struct page *: (const struct folio *)_compound_head(page + nr_pages - 1), struct page *:
(struct folio *)_compound_head(page + nr_pages - 1))) != folio)
[  734.469390] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  734.469393] WARNING: ./include/linux/rmap.h:351 at folio_add_file_rmap_ptes+0x3b8/0x468,
CPU#90: stress-ng-mlock/9430
[  734.469551]  folio_add_file_rmap_ptes+0x3b8/0x468 (P)
[  734.469555]  set_pte_range+0xd8/0x2f8
[  734.469566]  filemap_map_folio_range+0x190/0x400
[  734.469579]  filemap_map_pages+0x348/0x638
[  734.469583]  do_fault_around+0x140/0x198
......
[  734.469640]  el0t_64_sync+0x184/0x188
"

The code that triggers the warning is: "VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(page_folio(page +
nr_pages - 1) != folio, folio)", which indicates that set_pte_range()
tried to map beyond the large folio’s size.

By adding more debug information, I found that 'nr_pages' had overflowed
in filemap_map_pages(), causing set_pte_range() to establish mappings for
a range exceeding the folio size, potentially corrupting fields of pages
that do not belong to this folio (e.g., page->_mapcount).

After above analysis, I think the possible race is as follows:

CPU 0                                                  CPU 1
filemap_map_pages()                                   ext4_setattr()
   //get and lock folio with old inode->i_size
   next_uptodate_folio()

                                                          .......
                                                          //shrink the inode->i_size
                                                          i_size_write(inode, attr->ia_size);

   //calculate the end_pgoff with the new inode->i_size
   file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
   end_pgoff = min(end_pgoff, file_end);

   ......
   //nr_pages can be overflowed, cause xas.xa_index > end_pgoff
   end = folio_next_index(folio) - 1;
   nr_pages = min(end, end_pgoff) - xas.xa_index + 1;

   ......
   //map large folio
   filemap_map_folio_range()
                                                          ......
                                                          //truncate folios
                                                          truncate_pagecache(inode, inode->i_size);

To fix this issue, move the 'end_pgoff' calculation before
next_uptodate_folio(), so the retrieved folio stays consistent with the
file end to avoid 'nr_pages' calculation overflow.  After this patch, the
crash issue is gone.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1cf1ac59018fc647a87b0dad605d4056a71c14e4.1773739704.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: 743a2753a02e ("filemap: cap PTE range to be created to allowed zero fill in folio_map_range()")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Yuanhe Shu <xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Yuanhe Shu <xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberalin <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/filemap.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-filemap-fix-nr_pages-calculation-overflow-in-filemap_map_pages
+++ a/mm/filemap.c
@@ -3883,14 +3883,19 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_f
 	unsigned int nr_pages = 0, folio_type;
 	unsigned short mmap_miss = 0, mmap_miss_saved;
 
+	/*
+	 * Recalculate end_pgoff based on file_end before calling
+	 * next_uptodate_folio() to avoid races with concurrent
+	 * truncation.
+	 */
+	file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
+	end_pgoff = min(end_pgoff, file_end);
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	folio = next_uptodate_folio(&xas, mapping, end_pgoff);
 	if (!folio)
 		goto out;
 
-	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 PMD across i_size to preserve
 	 * SIGBUS semantics.
_