From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Zhiling Zou <roxy520tt@gmail.com>, Ren Wei <enjou1224z@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>,
Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y] mm/page_table_check: skip zero pages
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 12:54:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261110175354.2995296-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261107051936-failed-6.12-33afd07412a1@kernel.org>
From: Zhiling Zou <roxy520tt@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit 33afd07412a1efe5b750a3fd5eb0272ebdd12761 ]
page_table_check_set() accounts pages by whether they are PageAnon(). The
shared zero page is a special page, not an ordinary file-backed page.
Read faults on private anonymous mappings can install many read-only PTEs
that point at the zero page, but page_table_check currently accounts them
in file_map_count.
That lets an unprivileged process populate enough zero-page mappings to
overflow file_map_count and trip the BUG_ON() in page_table_check_set().
Skip zero pages in page_table_check accounting. They do not need the
anonymous/file mapping conflict checks that page_table_check performs for
ordinary pages, and this keeps the existing counter size and page_ext
layout unchanged.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/1f8848512d2e3ded944f8d595c29faee8fdaeab0.1784645969.git.roxy520tt@gmail.com
Fixes: df4e817b7108 ("mm: page table check")
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <roxy520tt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <enjou1224z@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Vega <vega@nebusec.ai>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4
Cc: Ye Liu <liuye@kylinos.cn>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
[ sashal: Replaced unavailable is_huge_zero_pfn(pfn) with is_huge_zero_folio(pfn_folio(pfn)). ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
mm/page_table_check.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/page_table_check.c b/mm/page_table_check.c
index 2efa910eef23e..1076f8e055f31 100644
--- a/mm/page_table_check.c
+++ b/mm/page_table_check.c
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ static void page_table_check_clear(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long pgcnt)
unsigned long i;
bool anon;
- if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
+ if (!pfn_valid(pfn) || is_zero_pfn(pfn) ||
+ is_huge_zero_folio(pfn_folio(pfn)))
return;
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
@@ -107,7 +108,8 @@ static void page_table_check_set(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long pgcnt,
unsigned long i;
bool anon;
- if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
+ if (!pfn_valid(pfn) || is_zero_pfn(pfn) ||
+ is_huge_zero_folio(pfn_folio(pfn)))
return;
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
--
2.53.0
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