* + mm-zone_device-do-not-touch-device-folio-after-calling-folio_free.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch
@ 2026-04-12 18:04 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-04-12 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, vishal.moola, stable, osalvador, david, balbirs,
matthew.brost, akpm
The patch titled
Subject: mm/zone_device: do not touch device folio after calling ->folio_free()
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-zone_device-do-not-touch-device-folio-after-calling-folio_free.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-zone_device-do-not-touch-device-folio-after-calling-folio_free.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: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Subject: mm/zone_device: do not touch device folio after calling ->folio_free()
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:03:46 -0700
The contents of a device folio can immediately change after calling
->folio_free(), as the folio may be reallocated by a driver with a
different order. Instead of touching the folio again to extract the
pgmap, use the local stack variable when calling percpu_ref_put_many().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260410230346.4009855-1-matthew.brost@intel.com
Fixes: d245f9b4ab80 ("mm/zone_device: support large zone device private folios")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/memremap.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/memremap.c~mm-zone_device-do-not-touch-device-folio-after-calling-folio_free
+++ a/mm/memremap.c
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ void free_zone_device_folio(struct folio
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!pgmap->ops || !pgmap->ops->folio_free))
break;
pgmap->ops->folio_free(folio);
- percpu_ref_put_many(&folio->pgmap->ref, nr);
+ percpu_ref_put_many(&pgmap->ref, nr);
break;
case MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC:
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from matthew.brost@intel.com are
mm-zone_device-do-not-touch-device-folio-after-calling-folio_free.patch
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