FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/memory: fix PMD/PUD checks in follow_pfnmap_start()" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

gregkh
2026-03-30T09:51:32Z

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x ffef67b93aa352b34e6aeba3d52c19a63885409a
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026033028-blitz-spill-525b@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From ffef67b93aa352b34e6aeba3d52c19a63885409a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:20:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mm/memory: fix PMD/PUD checks in follow_pfnmap_start()

follow_pfnmap_start() suffers from two problems:

(1) We are not re-fetching the pmd/pud after taking the PTL

Therefore, we are not properly stabilizing what the lock actually
protects. If there is concurrent zapping, we would indicate to the
caller that we found an entry, however, that entry might already have
been invalidated, or contain a different PFN after taking the lock.

Properly use pmdp_get() / pudp_get() after taking the lock.

(2) pmd_leaf() / pud_leaf() are not well defined on non-present entries

pmd_leaf()/pud_leaf() could wrongly trigger on non-present entries.

There is no real guarantee that pmd_leaf()/pud_leaf() returns something
reasonable on non-present entries. Most architectures indeed either
perform a present check or make it work by smart use of flags.

However, for example loongarch checks the _PAGE_HUGE flag in pmd_leaf(),
and always sets the _PAGE_HUGE flag in __swp_entry_to_pmd(). Whereby
pmd_trans_huge() explicitly checks pmd_present(), pmd_leaf() does not do
that.

Let's check pmd_present()/pud_present() before assuming "the is a present
PMD leaf" when spotting pmd_leaf()/pud_leaf(), like other page table
handling code that traverses user page tables does.

Given that non-present PMD entries are likely rare in VM_IO|VM_PFNMAP, (1)
is likely more relevant than (2). It is questionable how often (1) would
actually trigger, but let's CC stable to be sure.

This was found by code inspection.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260323-follow_pfnmap_fix-v1-1-5b0ec10872b3@kernel.org
Fixes: 6da8e9634bb7 ("mm: new follow_pfnmap API")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 2f815a34d924..c65e82c86fed 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -6815,11 +6815,16 @@ int follow_pfnmap_start(struct follow_pfnmap_args *args)

pudp = pud_offset(p4dp, address);
pud = pudp_get(pudp);
- if (pud_none(pud))
+ if (!pud_present(pud))
goto out;
if (pud_leaf(pud)) {
lock = pud_lock(mm, pudp);
- if (!unlikely(pud_leaf(pud))) {
+ pud = pudp_get(pudp);
+
+ if (unlikely(!pud_present(pud))) {
+ spin_unlock(lock);
+ goto out;
+ } else if (unlikely(!pud_leaf(pud))) {
spin_unlock(lock);
goto retry;
}
@@ -6831,9 +6836,16 @@ int follow_pfnmap_start(struct follow_pfnmap_args *args)

pmdp = pmd_offset(pudp, address);
pmd = pmdp_get_lockless(pmdp);
+ if (!pmd_present(pmd))
+ goto out;
if (pmd_leaf(pmd)) {
lock = pmd_lock(mm, pmdp);
- if (!unlikely(pmd_leaf(pmd))) {
+ pmd = pmdp_get(pmdp);
+
+ if (unlikely(!pmd_present(pmd))) {
+ spin_unlock(lock);
+ goto out;
+ } else if (unlikely(!pmd_leaf(pmd))) {
spin_unlock(lock);
goto retry;
}