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* [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] arm64-mm-fix-destructor-for-unconstructed-hotplug-page-tables.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-11-10  6:45 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-11-10  6:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mm-commits, will, stable, pjw, palmer, osalvador, mark.rutland,
	kevin.brodsky, david, dave.hansen, catalin.marinas, bjorn,
	apopple, aou, anshuman.khandual, alex, agordeev, muchun.song,
	akpm

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The quilt patch titled
     Subject: arm64/mm: fix destructor for unconstructed hotplug page tables
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     arm64-mm-fix-destructor-for-unconstructed-hotplug-page-tables.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Subject: arm64/mm: fix destructor for unconstructed hotplug page tables
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:34:28 +0800

Commit c594b83457cc ("arm64: mm: call pagetable dtor when freeing
hot-removed page tables") made free_hotplug_pgtable_page()
unconditionally run the page-table destructor. This matches page tables
allocated by the arm64 mapping code, which runs the corresponding
constructors.

However, arm64 also uses the generic sparse-vmemmap population code.
Runtime intermediate page tables allocated by that code do not run a
page-table constructor. Freeing one during memory hot-remove therefore
runs a destructor without a matching constructor and corrupts
NR_PAGETABLE accounting.

Free intermediate page-table pages through pagetable_free(). It runs the
destructor only for constructor-backed pages and then releases the page
through the page-table freeing path.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261023063428.3658761-5-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Fixes: c594b83457cc ("arm64: mm: call pagetable dtor when freeing hot-removed page tables")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---

 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c~arm64-mm-fix-destructor-for-unconstructed-hotplug-page-tables
+++ a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1495,8 +1495,7 @@ static void free_hotplug_page_range(stru
 
 static void free_hotplug_pgtable_page(struct page *page)
 {
-	pagetable_dtor(page_ptdesc(page));
-	free_hotplug_page_range(page, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
+	pagetable_free(page_ptdesc(page));
 }
 
 static bool pgtable_range_aligned(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from muchun.song@linux.dev are

mm-sparse-vmemmap-map-shared-vmemmap-tail-pages-as-read-only.patch
powerpc-mm-map-shared-vmemmap-tail-pages-as-read-only.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-remove-vmemmap_wrprotect_hvo.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-remove-hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_bootmem_folios.patch
mm-generalize-kernel-pte-table-allocation.patch
mm-generalize-pmd-page-table-allocation.patch
mm-generalize-pud-page-table-allocation.patch
mm-remove-pagetable_dtor_free.patch
mm-remove-redundant-pagetable_dtor-calls.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-remove-hugetlb-specific-vmemmap-optimization-macros.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-unify-vmemmap_splitremap_no_tlb_flush.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-simplify-vmemmap-head-page-handling.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-generalize-vmemmap-page-allocation.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-unify-writable-vmemmap-page-preparation.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-rename-vmemmap_remap_pte-to-vmemmap_optimize_pte.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-simplify-shared-tail-page-handling.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-move-alloc_vmemmap_page_list-next-to-its-free-helper.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-make-vmemmap-optimization-folio-oriented.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-make-vmemmap-restoration-folio-oriented.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-unify-vmemmap-range-restoration.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-make-vmemmap-pte-conversion-folio-oriented.patch
mm-hugetlb-fix-validation-of-unsupported-hugetlb-orders.patch
powerpc-mm-make-vmemmap_populate_compound_pages-static.patch
powerpc-mm-drop-powerpc-vmemmap_can_optimize.patch
loongarch-mm-disable-device-dax-vmemmap-optimization.patch
mm-sparse-vmemmap-drop-vmemmap_can_optimize.patch
mm-sparse-vmemmap-drop-pgmap-from-vmemmap-population-apis.patch


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