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2026-10-06mm: don't schedule deferred kernel page table freeing while bootingMikhail Gavrilov
Booting with a boot-time function tracer and a filter, for example ftrace=function ftrace_filter=pud_free_pmd_page panics on 7.3-rc4 as soon as the tracer starts: [ 23.531178] Starting tracer 'function' [ 23.675800] Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000038: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI [ 23.819917] KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000001c0-0x00000000000001c7] [ 23.964025] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 7.3.0-rc4-fe2ec83746e5-with-fixes-v2+ #195 PREEMPT(undef) [ 24.252248] RIP: 0010:__queue_work+0xab/0xf00 [ 25.981629] Call Trace: [ 26.125727] <TASK> [ 26.413912] ? pagetable_free_kernel+0x20/0x120 [ 26.990283] queue_work_on+0x97/0xf0 [ 27.134382] __cpa_collapse_large_pages+0x501/0x6f0 [ 27.566662] cpa_flush+0x394/0x620 [ 27.998953] change_page_attr_set_clr+0x321/0x4a0 [ 29.151729] set_memory_rox+0xa2/0xf0 [ 29.584018] create_trampoline+0x431/0x6f0 ... [ 44.343347] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! The boot-time tracer is started from early_trace_init(), which runs before workqueue_init_early(). Making its trampoline read-only splits a large page, and CPA collapses it again right away. The split table has been a kernel page table since commit 9e4a3ec3411b ("x86/mm/pat: Allocate split page tables as kernel page tables"), so the collapse frees it through pagetable_free_kernel(), which queues work on system_percpu_wq - still NULL at that point. That commit is correct in itself; it only lets CPA reach pagetable_free_kernel() before the workqueue that function relies on exists. Keep putting the table on the list, but don't schedule the work while the system is still booting. A core_initcall schedules it once to free whatever was queued by then. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260925050647.86913-1-mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260924064321.23787-1-mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com Fixes: 9e4a3ec3411b ("x86/mm/pat: Allocate split page tables as kernel page tables") Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com> Tested-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2026-10-06mm/mremap: fix locked_vm leak by splitting VMA for MREMAP_DONTUNMAPLorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
The MREMAP_DONTUNMAP feature is highly unusual in that it permits mremap() operations that keep the original VMA in place. Historically this has led to a lot of bugs where non-obvious interactions occur between existing mremap() operations and the original VMA. Fix another of these - partial copies. The long-standing mremap() partial VMA logic has the baked-in assumption that the originating VMA is unmapped and thus moved. However MREMAP_DONTUNMAP defeats this by performing a partial copy instead since it keeps the source VMA around. An mremap(..., MREMAP_DONTUNMAP) operation disallows resizing of the VMA, but the operation can be performed partially: |-----------------| | | | v <------> <------> .new_sz. new_sz |--.------.--| |------| | .source. | | dest | |--.------.--| |------| <------------> old_sz The page tables in the specified range are moved, but the original VMA is kept intact. This interacts poorly with mlock()'d VMAs, as the VMA_LOCKED_BIT flag is cleared for the entire source VMA and set for the entire destination VMA. This results in an mm->locked_vm leak as the change is therefore not accounted correctly. The clear solution here is to make the portion of the source VMA which is mremap()'d distinct from the rest of it, a.k.a. split it. Therefore resolve this issue by splitting it ahead of the rest of the mremap() operation if the VMA is mlock()'d. This is valid, as the source VMA will lose its VMA_LOCKED_BIT flag, so if a partial remap it will become distinct from the rest of the VMA. In order to make this change re-expose split_vma() in vma.h for CONFIG_MMU (nommu doesn't compile mremap.c and uses a static helper instead). Finally, update the sys_map_count check to account for this case. Note that the early check does not use needs_pre_split() - this is because the VMA has not been looked up by this point, so be conservative and assume that the VMA is mlock()'d in this case for the purposes of the sys_map_count check. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260930-fix-dontunmap-partial-self-merge-v2-2-f388985a0f0a@kernel.org Fixes: e346b3813067 ("mm/mremap: add MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to mremap()") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com> Tested-by: Anirudh Srinivasan <asrinivasan@oss.tenstorrent.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2026-10-06mm/mremap: fix locked_vm leak from MREMAP_DONTUNMAP self-mergeLorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
Patch series "mm/mremap: fix two issues with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP", v2. The MREMAP_DONTUNMAP feature is highly unusual in that it permits mremap() operations that keep the original VMA in place. Historically this has led to a lot of bugs where non-obvious interactions occur between existing mremap() operations and the original VMA. Commit 397432cab17b ("mm/mremap: account mm->locked_vm correctly for MREMAP_DONTUNMAP") fixed an accidentally introduced bug around mm->locked_vm accounting, but this wasn't the only issue. And thus history repeats itself, as it turns out that mm->locked_vm accounting is broken by MREMAP_DONTUNMAP yet again by two further cases, and has been broken ever since the feature was introduced. Both relate to the fact that VMA_LOCKED_BIT is cleared on the source VMA (it has to be as all page tables are moved): 1. If an unfaulted VMA_LOCKONFAULT_BIT anonymous VMA self-merges it clears the VMA_LOCKED_BIT flag and permanently leaks mm->locked_vm pages. 2. If a partial mremap() is performed on a locked VMA there is a leak equal to the number of pages not copied. (Both for MREMAP_DONTUNMAP operations only) Both issues can be fixed by treating the source range as distinct from the destination range, which is the definition of what MREMAP_DONTUNMAP does so is appropriate. In case 1, simply disallow the self-merge, keeping adjacent source and destination VMAs distinct. In case 2, split the source range ahead of time if the VMA is mlock()'d, so accounting is always correct. Both changes were tested locally and confirmed to fix the issues. For the purposes of a backport, the fixes are kept distinct, a follow-up series can add self-tests. This patch (of 2): The MREMAP_DONTUNMAP feature is highly unusual in that it permits mremap() operations that keep the original VMA in place. Historically this has led to a lot of bugs where non-obvious interactions occur between existing mremap() operations and the original VMA. Fix another of these - self-merge. Self-merge occurs when a VMA is moved in front of or behind itself and the attributes of the VMA permit such a merge. Practically this can only happen for unfaulted anonymous VMAs due to the page offset equality requirement for merge: |------------| | | | v |...........||-----------||...........| | || unfaulted || | |...........||-----------||...........| ^ | | | |------------| This becomes problematic if the VMA is configured by the user to mlock-on-fault, i.e. the VMA_LOCKED_BIT, VMA_LOCKONFAULT_BIT VMA flags are set. MREMAP_DONTUNMAP clears mlock flags for the source VMA and maintains them for the destination VMA. Self-merge makes this impossible (there is only one VMA) and incorrectly clears the destination VMA's mlock flags. This causes a leak in mm->locked_vm as clearing this flag does not decrement the counter and the VMA no longer has VMA_LOCKED_BIT set so it is not decremented on unmap. Resolve this by simply disallowing a self-merge in this case - the source and destination VMAs are kept distinct and then are able to have distinct mlock() flags. Update dontunmap_complete() to make the now-redundant self-merge check a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() instead to guard against future regressions. Also update the VMA userland tests to reflect the change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260930-fix-dontunmap-partial-self-merge-v2-0-f388985a0f0a@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260930-fix-dontunmap-partial-self-merge-v2-1-f388985a0f0a@kernel.org Fixes: e346b3813067 ("mm/mremap: add MREMAP_DONTUNMAP to mremap()") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jose A. Perez de Azpillaga <azpijr@gmail.com> Tested-by: Anirudh Srinivasan <asrinivasan@oss.tenstorrent.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2026-10-02Merge tag 'slab-for-7.3-rc5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/slab Pull slab fixes from Vlastimil Babka: - Stable fix for a potential deadlock in kfree_rcu() when called from set_cpus_allowed_force() (Harry Yoo) - MAINTAINERS update of the slab.git URL * tag 'slab-for-7.3-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/slab: mm/slab: do not wake up kswapd in __kfree_rcu_sheaf() MAINTAINERS: update slab.git URL
2026-09-28Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-27-19-12' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM fixes from Andrew Morton: - Fix module loading incorrectly returning success after alloc_tag codetag setup failed - Restore MADV_COLLAPSE semantics for shmem so forced collapse ignores the shmem THP/mTHP sysfs settings - Make alloc_tag UAPI structure padding explicit - Fix DAMON schemes unexpectedly stopping after quotas are disabled through the online parameter update interface - Fix a false SW_TAGS KASAN invalid-access report when freeing vmapped task stacks - Split the MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MEMORY POLICY AND MIGRATION MAINTAINERS entry into separate MIGRATION and NUMA PLACEMENT entries - Move memory tiering maintenance under NUMA PLACEMENT - Add Gregory Price as a NUMA PLACEMENT co-maintainer - Add Heming Zhao as an ocfs2 reviewer - Fix mmap_prepare() state being copied onto a merged VMA rather than only onto a newly allocated VMA * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-27-19-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm/vma: predicate setting mmap_prepare VMA fields on new vma alloc MAINTAINERS: add Heming Zhao as ocfs2 reviewer MAINTAINERS: make Gregory a co-maintainer of MEMORY MANAGEMENT - NUMA PLACEMENT MAINTAINERS: move memory tiering under MEMORY MANAGEMENT - NUMA PLACEMENT MAINTAINERS: split up MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MEMORY POLICY AND MIGRATION kasan: unpoison task stack below watermark only in generic mode mm/damon/core: don't skip damos_adjust_quota() while esz is not zero alloc_tag: avoid implicit padding in uapi mm: shmem: ignore sysfs configs for shmem forced collapse module: fix lost error code from codetag_load_module()
2026-09-26mm/vma: predicate setting mmap_prepare VMA fields on new vma allocLorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
It only makes sense to manipulate VMA fields if a new VMA was allocated, rather than merged. VMA merging does not compare vm_ops or vm_private_data, so a merged VMA keeps its own, which is also what the legacy f_op->mmap path does since it never touches an existing VMA. Currently, these fields will get overwritten by whatever state is established in the mmap_prepare hook, and if the VMA was merged, vm_ops->mapped will not have been called, so this could destructively clear existing state without replacing it with anything valid. There is an implicit requirement that vm_private_data and vm_ops are fungible across VMAs which means that losing the 'new' state is fine. However in this case the 'old' state is being overwritten by potentially invalid 'new' state, so this must be rectified. Additionally constify have_mmap_prepare while here. All existing in-tree users either derive state from the file or are unmergeable due to VMA flags, so this has no direct impact. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260923-fix-mmap-prepare-overwrite-v1-1-3b3f1bfcdf5e@kernel.org Fixes: c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2026-09-26kasan: unpoison task stack below watermark only in generic modeAndrey Ryabinin
CPU resume and BPF exception handling can discard stack frames without running their compiler-generated epilogues. Generic KASAN needs kasan_unpoison_task_stack_below() to clear the redzones left behind by those frames before the stack is reused. CONFIG_KASAN_STACK also enables this helper for SW_TAGS. The helper derives the stack base from an untagged stack pointer, so kasan_unpoison() writes KASAN_TAG_KERNEL (0xff) into the shadow for [base, watermark). For a vmapped task stack, vm_area->addr still carries the original random allocation tag. This creates a tag mismatch at the stack base even if that memory has never held an instrumented stack object. When the task exits and its stack is not cached, thread_stack_free_rcu() passes vm_area->addr to vfree(). In RCU callback context this reaches vfree_atomic(), whose llist_add() writes to the allocation base through the tagged pointer and triggers a false KASAN invalid-access report: BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in vfree_atomic+0x90/0x150 Write of size 8 at addr c2ffffc0a8f70000 by task rcuop/7/75 Pointer tag: [c2], memory tag: [ff] Call trace: __hwasan_store8_noabort+0xe8/0xf8 vfree_atomic+0x90/0x150 vfree+0x220/0x298 thread_stack_free_rcu+0x3c/0x4c rcu_do_batch+0x308/0xaf0 rcu_nocb_cb_kthread+0x33c/0x708 The deferred-free path started using the tagged vm_area->addr in commit 449e0b4ed5a1 ("fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code"). Previously it freed the untagged pointer derived from tsk->stack, so the write was never tag-checked. SW_TAGS does not need the blanket shadow reset to make subsequent stack accesses valid: untagged kernel pointers have the match-all 0xff tag, and the compiler initializes the shadow tags of instrumented stack objects before use. Return early unless CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC is enabled. Keep the mode check in the common helper so it covers both resume and bpf_throw(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260916175113.1327454-1-ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com Fixes: 449e0b4ed5a1 ("fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code") Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Shaobo Huang <huangshaobo3@xiaomi.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260806123020.90869-1-huangshaobo3@xiaomi.com/ Assisted-by: LLM Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2026-09-26mm/damon/core: don't skip damos_adjust_quota() while esz is not zeroSJ Park
DAMOS could unexpectedly stop working when a user disables quota using the online parameters commit feature. Fix it by correcting a wrong quota unset check in damos_adjust_quota(). DAMON users could disable all quotas by unsetting time and size quotas, and removing all quota goals. The intention of disabling quotas would be making DAMOS run at full speed. When such quota disabled setup is detected, damos_adjust_quota() skips all its work. The skipped works include effective size quota (damos_quota->esz) updates and charged quota amount (damos_quota->charged_sz) resets. The intention is to avoid doing unnecessary work when quotas are disabled. However, users could do the setup while effective size quota is non-zero, by doing the disabling with the online DAMON parameters commit feature. In this case, because the effective size quota exists, DAMOS will keep working with the quota until it is fully charged. After the effective quota is fully charged, the charged quota amount (damos_quota->charged_sz) cannot be reset because damos_adjust_quota() skips it. Then, DAMOS stops working until the quota is newly set or DAMON is entirely restarted. The problem happens because damos_adjust_quota() assumes the user setup for disabling quota immediately disabled it. In reality, the quota is still working until the effective size quota is also updated to zero. Other logic for catching that uses damos_quota_is_set(), which understands the fact and therefore checks the effective size quota in addition to the user setup. Fix the issue by using damos_quota_is_set() in damos_adjust_quota() to determine if its works should be skipped. The user impact is a non-deterministic and unexpected DAMOS stop behavior. That is, users would disable quotas using the online parameters commit feature, expecting DAMOS will run at full speed. However, depending on the timing, the setup can be updated while the effective size quota is non-zero. Due to the above mentioned internal mechanism, DAMOS stops working instead of running at full speed. It is unexpected behavior. It is also non-deterministic because sometimes the setup is done when the effective size quota is zero, depending on the timing. It doesn't cause critical issues like crashes or leaks. Users can simply set a reasonable quota again, or restart DAMON. But definitely it is an unexpected and non-deterministic behavior that makes it difficult to reliably use. Also investigating the root cause of the behavior would be quite difficult. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260916135020.86483-1-sj@kernel.org Fixes: da87878010e5 ("mm/damon/sysfs: support online inputs update") Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.19.x
2026-09-26mm: shmem: ignore sysfs configs for shmem forced collapseBaolin Wang
According to Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst, MADV_COLLAPSE is expected to ignore any THP or mTHP interface settings. However, after commit 26c7d8413aaf ("mm: thp: support "THPeligible" semantics for mTHP with anonymous shmem"), performing MADV_COLLAPSE on shmem will depend on /sys/.../hugepages-2048kB/shmem_enabled being set to "inherit" (although that is the default), which can cause MADV_COLLAPSE to fail unexpectedly. This could cause a userspace-visible performance regression. Fix this by returning the result of shmem_huge_global_enabled() directly when MADV_COLLAPSE is requested, allowing PMD-order collapse while ignoring shmem THP/mTHP settings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/063f655b4d6c4234f3aa27ed6ecab10283ecb880.1789351825.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: 26c7d8413aaf ("mm: thp: support "THPeligible" semantics for mTHP with anonymous shmem") Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260908125105.1510704-7-kirill@shutemov.name/ Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2026-09-24Merge tag 'fixes-2026-09-24' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/memblock Pull memblock fix from Mike Rapoport: "The rework of HugeTLB bootmem allocation forgot to add the name for a new RSV_HUGETLB flag for proper display in debugfs. Add the flag name now" * tag 'fixes-2026-09-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/memblock: mm: memblock: add missing HugeTLB flag name
2026-09-24mm/slab: do not wake up kswapd in __kfree_rcu_sheaf()Harry Yoo (Meta)
Since kfree_rcu() can be called under pi_lock (a raw spinlock in the scheduler), kfree_rcu() itself should never allocate memory with __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM as waking up kswapd ends up acquiring pi_lock, which leads to a deadlock. Reproducing the issue even intentionally was not straightforward. The set_cpus_allowed_force() path that is called under pi_lock is exercised very rarely, and competing tasks that allocate memory will most likely wake kswapd up. Therefore the existence of the deadlock was verified with a modified kernel that has a lockdep map for waking up kswapd: ====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 7.2.0-rc1-slab-for-next+ #10 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ git/6660 is trying to acquire lock: ffff8e524533c550 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x12/0x20 but task is already holding lock: ffff8e57bffff1a0 (&pgdat->kswapd_wait){....}-{3:3}, at: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x12/0x20 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #2 (&pgdat->kswapd_wait){....}-{3:3}: __lock_acquire+0x5a4/0xc50 lock_acquire.part.0+0xb7/0x240 lock_acquire+0x70/0x170 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x44/0x80 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x12/0x20 __wake_up_common_lock+0x31/0xa0 __wake_up+0x20/0x40 kswapd_wakeup_wake+0x7e/0x110 wakeup_kswapd+0x295/0x320 wake_all_kswapds+0xac/0x1a0 __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x282/0xf80 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x32a/0x360 alloc_slab_page+0x2e/0x160 allocate_slab+0x82/0x420 new_slab+0x52/0xb0 refill_objects+0x13d/0x190 refill_sheaf+0x5d/0xd0 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x230/0xb10 [...] -> #1 (kswapd_wakeup){-.-.}-{0:0}: __lock_acquire+0x5a4/0xc50 lock_sync.part.0+0x75/0x100 lock_sync+0x36/0x70 might_wakeup_kswapd+0x61/0xa0 __kfree_rcu_sheaf+0x33/0xd90 kvfree_call_rcu+0x1d4/0x3b0 set_cpus_allowed_force+0x163/0x220 cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback+0x18b/0x240 select_fallback_rq+0x1e6/0x250 [...] -> #0 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.}-{2:2}: check_prev_add+0xe6/0xe00 validate_chain+0x51e/0x6e0 __lock_acquire+0x5a4/0xc50 lock_acquire.part.0+0xb7/0x240 lock_acquire+0x70/0x170 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x44/0x80 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x12/0x20 try_to_wake_up+0x77/0xa90 default_wake_function+0x27/0x60 autoremove_wake_function+0x23/0xb0 __wake_up_common+0xb8/0x170 __wake_up_common_lock+0x51/0xa0 __wake_up+0x20/0x40 kswapd_wakeup_wake+0x7e/0x110 wakeup_kswapd+0x295/0x320 wake_all_kswapds+0xac/0x1a0 __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.0+0x282/0xf80 __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x32a/0x360 alloc_slab_page+0x2e/0x160 allocate_slab+0x82/0x420 new_slab+0x52/0xb0 refill_objects+0x13d/0x190 refill_sheaf+0x5d/0xd0 __pcs_replace_empty_main+0x230/0xb10 [...] other info that might help us debug this: Chain exists of: &p->pi_lock --> kswapd_wakeup --> &pgdat->kswapd_wait Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&pgdat->kswapd_wait); lock(kswapd_wakeup); lock(&pgdat->kswapd_wait); lock(&p->pi_lock); *** DEADLOCK *** 3 locks held by git/6660: #0: ffff8e519f0e9e20 (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#6){++++}-{4:4}, at: lookup_slow+0x2d/0x60 #1: ffffffff8a31c460 (kswapd_wakeup){-.-.}-{0:0}, at: kswapd_wakeup_wake+0x4d/0x110 #2: ffff8e57bffff1a0 (&pgdat->kswapd_wait){....}-{3:3}, at: _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x12/0x20 [...] Fix this by always avoiding waking up kswapd in __kfree_rcu_sheaf(). Note that there are two paths that might wake up kswapd: 1) __kfree_rcu_sheaf() // __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM might wake up kswapd -> alloc_empty_sheaf(GFP_NOWAIT) 2) __kfree_rcu_sheaf() // Let's say __kfree_rcu_sheaf() doesn't pass GFP_NOWAIT -> alloc_empty_sheaf(__GFP_NOWARN) -> kmalloc_flags() -> slab_alloc_node() -> alloc_from_pcs() -> __pcs_replace_empty_main() // Free a sheaf in an allocation path when the sheaf becomes empty // and refilling the sheaf fails -> free_empty_sheaf() -> slab_free() -> free_to_pcs() -> __pcs_replace_full_main() // However free path always assumes it's safe to wake up kswapd -> alloc_empty_sheaf(GFP_NOWAIT) Drop __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM in both cases. Note that the kfree_rcu() is not the only user of free_to_pcs() path, but it should be fixed as it can be invoked under pi_lock. Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260831-b4-kfree_rcu_hotfix-v1-1-4f0fb882638b%40kernel.org Fixes: ec66e0d59952 ("slab: add sheaf support for batching kfree_rcu() operations") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260831143500.x-saxdAs@linutronix.de Assisted-by: LLM # dicovery and verification Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo (Meta) <harry@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260922-kfree-rcu-dont-wakeup-kswapd-v1-1-42d7e2636f9e@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2026-09-22Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-21-17-08' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM fixes from Andrew Morton: "14 hotfixes. 10 are cc:stable. 11 are for MM. Five DAMON fixes: one fixes an arm64 contpte bug where DAMON can write past the end of a page-table page, resulting in memory corruption and possible crashes. Two hugetlb fixes: one fixes an mremap() address calculation bug which can panic x86-64. There's also a missing anon_vma publication barrier which can result in hung tasks, and a writeback fix to keep long cgroup writeback drains from delaying Tasks-RCU grace periods. The remainder are smaller fixes and maintenance changes" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-21-17-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: MAINTAINERS: update Xu Xin's email writeback: report a Tasks-RCU quiescent state per cgwb drain pass mm/damon/core: reset invalid quota->charge_target_from MAINTAINERS: add Baoquan and Baolin as MGLRU reviewers mm/rmap: fix missing barrier between anon_vma init and vma->anon_vma publish mm/hugetlb: preserve mremap address delta when skipping page tables mm/damon/core: fix unconditionally skip last region mm/damon/vaddr: avoid hw-driven pte updates during damon_hugetlb_mkold() mm/damon/core: allow esz to be set to zero mm/damon/ops-common: use a page-aligned address in damon_ptep_mkold() ocfs2: make ocfs2_calc_xattr_init() return void mailmap: update Haowen Bai's email address selftests/cgroup: account for zswap shrinker writeback mm/hugetlb: do not dissolve gigantic pages without runtime support
2026-09-18writeback: report a Tasks-RCU quiescent state per cgwb drain passJosef Bacik
cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn() drains a dying cgwb by calling cleanup_offline_cgwb() until it returns false, with a cond_resched() between passes. On a CONFIG_PREEMPTION kernel that cond_resched() does nothing: _cond_resched() is a plain "return 0", and under PREEMPT_DYNAMIC the full and lazy modes disable it. Since commit 7dadeaa6e851 ("sched: Further restrict the preemption modes") those are the only two models on the architectures with PREEMPT_LAZY support, arm64 and x86 among them, so the drain loop never reports a Tasks-RCU quiescent state. A worker draining a cgwb with millions of attached inodes runs for minutes. On a 6.18 arm64 host in lazy mode the cgwb worker drained one dying cgroup's writeback domain for over 11 minutes. A BPF program unlink (bpf_trampoline_unlink_prog -> bpf_trampoline_update -> unregister_ftrace_direct -> ftrace_shutdown -> synchronize_rcu_tasks()) waited on that grace period while holding the trampoline mutex, 42 tasks queued behind it in D state, and the hung task detector fired at 614 s and panicked the host. Any BPF or ftrace detach during a long drain inherits the drain's length. Fix this by calling cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() so we do not stall out anybody who calls sycnrhonize_rcu_tasks(). We put this in a do { } while loop because if we have many small cgroups cleanup_offline_cgwb() will return false and we will never call cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), creating the same problem. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260909-cgwb-tasks-rcu-qs-v1-1-967a7754771f@toxicpanda.com Fixes: c22d70a162d3 ("writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes") Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/9d444098-7c03-4163-af12-bd0a79a51443@paulmck-laptop/ Assisted-by: LLM Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2026-09-18mm/damon/core: reset invalid quota->charge_target_fromSJ Park
DAMOS can suddenly stop working if a target process that the quota is just fully charged on is terminated. Fix by catching and processing the corner case. When DAMOS quota is fully charged, the target and the region to continue applying the action in the next round is saved in damos_quota->charge_{target,addr}_from. In the next round, DAMOS iterates targets and regions from the beginning. It skips applying the action to the regions until it visits and skips the saved target/region. Virtual address space targets become invalid if the process is terminated. Trying to apply the scheme to invalid target is just a waste of time. Hence commit 6e4930e33329 ("mm/damon/core: fix wasteful CPU calls by skipping non-existent targets") made the logic to skip invalid targets. However, it does skip before the charged target/region skipping/updating. Let's suppose the user runs DAMOS for multiple virtual address spaces with a quota. The quota exceeded in the middle of a virtual address space. And the process of the address space is terminated. Then the charge_target_from points to the invalid target. The pointer update logic is skipped for the invalid target, so the charge_target_from is never updated. DAMOS action to every target/region is skipped. From the user's perspective, it would look like suddenly DAMOS has stopped working. No critical leak or crash can happen. The user could reinstall the scheme. But this makes use of DAMOS under certain setups quite unreliable. When the invalid target is found, further check the corner case and reset the pointer. This issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260910142846.172957-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260830064708.40CA61F000E9@smtp.kernel.org [1] Fixes: 6e4930e33329 ("mm/damon/core: fix wasteful CPU calls by skipping non-existent targets") Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Enze Li <lienze@kylinos.cn> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 7.0.x
2026-09-18mm/rmap: fix missing barrier between anon_vma init and vma->anon_vma publishJinjiang Tu
On arm64 server, we find that a task trying to grab the anon_vma lock triggers hungtask. INFO: task main:2354726 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Tainted: G E 5.10.0-0021.aarch64 #1 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:main state:D stack: 0 pid:2354726 ppid:2350673 flags:0x00000a01 Call trace: __switch_to+0x7c/0xbc __schedule+0x3b4/0x8a0 schedule+0x50/0xe0 rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x3cc/0x6cc down_write+0x60/0x260 __anon_vma_prepare+0x6c/0x210 do_anonymous_page+0x258/0x660 handle_pte_fault+0x188/0x214 __handle_mm_fault+0x1b0/0x380 handle_mm_fault+0xf4/0x284 do_page_fault+0x19c/0x494 do_translation_fault+0xcc/0xf8 do_mem_abort+0x48/0xac el0_da+0x44/0x80 el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xb4 el0_sync+0x160/0x180 After analyzing the vmcore, we found the anon_vma->root->rwsem.count is -1. There is another anon_vma whose anon_vma->root->rwsem.count is 1, the anon_vma->root->rwsem.owner shows the lock is held, but the stack of the task shows the task doesn't hold the anon_vma lock. After adding more debugging info, we found __anon_vma_prepare() reuses anon_vma and triggers the UAF of anon_vma->root due to missing memory barrier, leading to locking and unlocking two different anon_vma->root, thus leading to an anon_vma will never be unlocked, and another anon_vma couldn't be locked anymore. This race requires two adjacent VMAs that are not merged but are anon_vma-compatible (e.g., they differ in VMA_ACCESS_FLAGS that can be changed by mprotect()). Two threads fault on each VMA concurrently, both calling __anon_vma_prepare() with only mmap_lock held for reading. THREAD A THREAD B __anon_vma_prepare __anon_vma_prepare find_mergeable_anon_vma() -> NULL anon_vma = anon_vma_alloc(); anon_vma->root = anon_vma; // the two stores may be reordered vma->anon_vma = anon_vma; // finds A's anon_vma anon_vma = find_mergeable_anon_vma(vma); anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma); // may still see the old root down_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem); anon_vma_unlock_write(anon_vma); // see the new root, never unlock old up_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem); thread A triggers page fault and calls __anon_vma_prepare() to prepare anon_vma for the faulting vma. __anon_vma_prepare() allocates and initializes a new anon_vma, and then publishes it to the vma with a plain store. anon_vma_prepare() only requires the mmap_lock to be held for reading, so two threads can fault on adjacent VMAs at the same time. While thread A publishes a new anon_vma, thread B could find the anon_vma via find_mergeable_anon_vma() and then locks anon_vma->root->rwsem. The store to anon_vma->root in anon_vma_alloc() and the store to vma->anon_vma can be reordered. The anon_vma_lock_write() and spin_lock() only provide acquire semantics, which do not prevent prior stores from being reordered after them. The release semantics of the corresponding spin_unlock() and anon_vma_unlock_write() come too late, the store to vma->anon_vma is already published before they take effect. As a result, thread B can observe the following order: vma->anon_vma = anon_vma; anon_vma->root = anon_vma; The anon_vma slab is SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, so a newly allocated anon_vma may reuse memory from a previously freed one. The constructor (anon_vma_ctor) does not reset anon_vma->root, and __put_anon_vma() doesn't clear it either, so the old root value persists until anon_vma_alloc() overwrites it. If that store isn't visible, thread B reads a root that points to the old anon_vma and locks it. As a result, thread B can call anon_vma_lock_write() with the old root, and call anon_vma_unlock_write() with the new root, leading to an anon_vma will never be unlocked, and another anon_vma couldn't be locked anymore (its count is dropped from 0 to -1 due to wrong unlock). To fix it, change the plain store `vma->anon_vma = anon_vma` to store release, so that the fields of anon_vma are visible before anon_vma is published to vma->anon_vma. At read side, the load of anon_vma and anon_vma->root have address dependency. According to Documentation/memory-barriers.txt and some investigations, only Alpha needs address-dependency barriers and it has been handled by READ_ONCE() in reusable_anon_vma(). We reproduced this issue in v5.10 with KSM enabled. The kernel doesn't merge commit cf7e7a3503df ("mm: prevent KSM from breaking VMA merging for new VMAs"), so there are many adjacent VMAs that aren't merged but are compatible for anon_vma. Without this fix, our production environment could reproduce this issue about 2-5 times each month. After adding a smp_mb() before anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma) in __anon_vma_prepare(), which is different to this patch, this issue hasn't been reproduced for one month. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260908122924.554373-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com Fixes: 5c341ee1dfc8 ("mm: track the root (oldest) anon_vma") Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org> Cc: Hiroyouki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Nanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2026-09-18mm/hugetlb: preserve mremap address delta when skipping page tablesJaewook You
move_hugetlb_page_tables() optimizes mremap() by advancing to the last entry in the page table when the source page table does not exist, either initially or after unsharing a PMD table. The common loop increment then steps to the first entry in the next page table. However, the code advances both the source and destination addresses to the last entries in their respective page tables, which is wrong. The destination address must be advanced only by the same amount as the source address. If the source and destination offsets within their page tables differ, the destination address can be advanced too far, causing follow-up issues. Fix this by advancing the destination address by the source advance distance. With a reproducer, we were able to trigger a kernel panic on x86-64. With this fix in place, we can no longer reproduce the issue. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260914132352.472-1-jaewook376@gmail.com Fixes: e95a9851787b ("hugetlb: skip to end of PT page mapping when pte not present") Fixes: 4ddb4d91b82f ("hugetlb: do not update address in huge_pmd_unshare") Signed-off-by: Jaewook You <jaewook376@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Assisted-by: LLM
2026-09-18mm/damon/core: fix unconditionally skip last regionLiew Rui Yan
Once quota set, the charge_{target,addr}_from unconditionally skips and resets at the last region of the tracked target, so the last region can be skipped even when it has not been processed. Example: 1. Target has 2 regions: R1 (0-100 bytes) and R2 (100-200 bytes). 2. Quota is configured to process only 100 bytes per window. 3. Window 1: Processes R1 (0-100). Quota is full. charge_{target, addr}_from is saved at (Target, 100). 4. Window 2: The loop reaches R2. Because R2 is damon_last_region(t), the old code unconditionally returns true, skipping R2 entirely and resetting the charge_{target,addr}_from. Result: R2 is permanently skipped even though it has never been processed. However, it is important to note that this is a very minor issue. This is because it is triggered only when the previous window saved/kept charge_{target,addr}_from, and in the next window, all regions except the last region were skipped by damos_skip_charged_region(). Fix this by only resetting the charge_{target,addr}_from when last region is reached, only skipping when it is applied or cannot split. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260908134739.96919-1-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 50585192bc2e ("mm/damon/schemes: skip already charged targets and regions") Signed-off-by: Liew Rui Yan <aethernet65535@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.16.x
2026-09-18mm/damon/vaddr: avoid hw-driven pte updates during damon_hugetlb_mkold()SJ Park
damon_hugetlb_mkold() reads the page table entry into a local variable, unsets the accessed bit in the variable, and updates the page table entry with the updated variable value. If hardware updates the same page table entry in parallel, the hw updates could be lost. For example, hardware-updated dirty bits might be lost. Avoid the parallel updates by clearing the page table entry when reading it together, using huge_ptep_get_and_clear(). If a parallel write to the memory is made after the clearing, the hw will see the page table entry is cleared, trigger page fault and wait until it is handled. The page fault handling will wait for damon_hugetlb_mkold() due to the page table lock. Because hugetlbfs is an in-memory file system and hugetlb pages cannot be reclaimed, no critical issue is expected to my best knowledge. But definitely this is a nasty bug that should be fixed sooner rather than later. The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260907170358.100168-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260830160545.98969-1-sj@kernel.org [1] Fixes: 49f4203aae06 ("mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages") Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.17.x
2026-09-18mm/damon/core: allow esz to be set to zeroLiew Rui Yan
When the temporal quota goal tuner determines that the goal has been achieved (score >= 10000), it sets esz_bp to zero so that the esz becomes zero. However, damos_set_effective_quota() clamps the esz to min_region_sz when quota->ms is set. This is a minor issue, the main problem is that it doesn't match the description in the documentation, which state that if the goal has already been [over-]achieved, the quota will be set to zero. Fix this by set quota (esz) as minimum as possible. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260908135413.97570-1-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 8bbde987c2b8 ("mm/damon/core: disallow time-quota setting zero esz") Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Liew Rui Yan <aethernet65535@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v7.1.x
2026-09-18mm/damon/ops-common: use a page-aligned address in damon_ptep_mkold()Nathan Gao
__damon_va_prepare_access_check() picks a random byte address within the region and stores it in r->sampling_addr. damon_va_mkold() passes it into a page table walk, which hands it to damon_ptep_mkold() as the address of the page to sample: damon_va_mkold(mm, r->sampling_addr) damon_va_walk_page_range(mm, addr, addr + 1) damon_mkold_pmd_entry() damon_ptep_mkold(pte, vma, addr) ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, pte) mmu_notifier_clear_young(mm, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE) For arm64, before commit 6f0e1142173a ("arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios"), the contpte helper walked exactly CONT_PTES entries from the aligned-down page table pointer and used @addr only to pass down to each entry, so an unaligned value was harmless: ptep = contpte_align_down(ptep); addr = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, CONT_PTE_SIZE); for (i = 0; i < CONT_PTES; i++, ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) Now the range to walk is derived from @addr instead: end = addr + nr * PAGE_SIZE, rounded up to CONT_PTE_SIZE. For a sample in the last page of a contpte block, the sub-page offset puts end just past the block boundary, so the round-up lands a whole block further and the walk clears PTE_AF in CONT_PTES entries beyond the sampled block. For the last block in a page table page, those entries are past the end of that page, so the walk writes into the page that follows. Triggered by the full 7.1/7.2 kernel selftest suite on arm64 (EC2 c/m6g.4xlarge). The kernel sometimes crashes at or shortly after the DAMON test. What the overrun does depends on the page that happens to follow the page table, so there is no single signature. If that page is read-only, the write faults in the sampling path itself: Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address ffff0003c5d2d000 FSC = 0x0f: level 3 permission fault CM = 0, WnR = 1, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0 CPU: 10 UID: 0 PID: 3487 Comm: kdamond.2 pc : contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes+0x70/0xc0 lr : damon_ptep_mkold+0x1e8/0x1f8 Call trace: contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes+0x70/0xc0 (P) damon_mkold_pmd_entry+0x150/0x170 walk_pmd_range+0x110/0x2b0 walk_pud_range+0x10c/0x208 walk_pgd_range+0x134/0x258 __walk_page_range+0x98/0x1b0 walk_page_range_vma_unsafe+0x90/0x148 walk_page_range_vma+0x28/0x40 damon_va_walk_page_range+0x114/0x2b8 damon_va_prepare_access_checks+0xec/0x1a8 kdamond_fn+0x534/0x770 kthread+0x128/0x138 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Otherwise the page is writable, the PTE_AF clearing succeeds silently and the damage only surfaces later, in whatever happened to own the page, so the backtrace is unrelated to DAMON and differs between runs. Pass a page-aligned address to the ptep_test_and_clear_young() call in damon_ptep_mkold(), which is the only place DAMON can reach contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes() from. Nothing else sees the aligned address, and r->sampling_addr itself is left as is, so the sampling and region bookkeeping semantics are unchanged. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260904002829.116381-1-sj@kernel.org Fixes: 6f0e1142173a ("arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios") Signed-off-by: Nathan Gao <zcgao@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2026-09-17mm/hugetlb: do not dissolve gigantic pages without runtime supportLonglong Xia
dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio() doesn't check hstate_is_gigantic_no_runtime(h) though remove_hugetlb_folio()/ update_and_free_hugetlb_folio() silently bail for such folios, so it frees a still-listed folio and, on vmemmap restore failure, the add_hugetlb_folio() rollback corrupts the free list. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260823044118.1097121-2-xialonglong2025@163.com Fixes: 6eb4e88a6d27 ("hugetlb: create remove_hugetlb_page() to separate functionality") Signed-off-by: Longlong Xia <xialonglong@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2026-09-15mm: memblock: add missing HugeTLB flag nameMeijing Zhao
Commit 7d163a75f821 ("memblock: make HugeTLB bootmem allocation work with KHO") added MEMBLOCK_RSRV_HUGETLB but did not add the corresponding entry to flagname[]. As a result, memblock debugfs cannot report the flag by name. Add the missing RSV_HUGETLB entry. Fixes: 7d163a75f821 ("memblock: make HugeTLB bootmem allocation work with KHO") Signed-off-by: Meijing Zhao <zhaomeijing@lixiang.com> Signed-off-by: Wandun Chen <chenwandun@lixiang.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260821020910.3428585-2-zhaomeijing100@gmail.com/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260915124641.2498280-1-chenwandun1@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-09-14Merge tag 'fixes-2026-09-14' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/memblock Pull memblock fixes from Mike Rapoport: "Fix for regions display in debugfs and MAINTAINERS update: - Make sure that multiple flags on a memblock region are all displayed in debugfs - Update memblock tree tags in MAINTAINERS" * tag 'fixes-2026-09-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/memblock: MAINTAINERS: update memblock tree URLs mm: memblock: show all region flags in debugfs
2026-09-14Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-13-21-50' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton: "14 hotfixes. 10 are cc:stable. 11 are for MM. All are singletons - please see the changelogs for details" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-13-21-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm/folio: EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM(lru_cache_drain_for_folio) mm/shrinker: fix bogus set_shrinker_bit() with cgroup.memory=nokmem mm/vma: correctly unaccount on mmap_prepare() failure mm/mlock: use the IRQ-safe accessor for NR_MLOCK in __munlock_folio() remove old lib/alloc_tag.c fs/dax: check zero or empty entry before converting xarray entry fs: fix missed removal of super_fs_objects_eligible() mm: filemap: retain mapped dropbehind folios mailmap: update entry for Christopher Obbard memcg: avoid charging the root memcg from obj_cgroup_charge_pages() mm, swap: fix SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT collision with real usage count mailmap: map Coiby Xu's address mm/mremap: account mm->locked_vm correctly for MREMAP_DONTUNMAP mm/huge_memory: bypass THP tuneables for huge pfnmap mappings
2026-09-11Merge tag 'slab-for-7.3-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/slab Pull slab fixes from Vlastimil Babka: - Stable fix for an ABA issue causing slab list corruption introduced in 7.2 (Harry Yoo, with big thanks to Hyunwoo Kim for the thorough report and initial version of the fix) - Fix for 7.3 regression of kvfree_rcu() on PREEMPT_RT which can cause a deadlock from the set_cpus_allowed_force() caller (Vlastimil Babka) * tag 'slab-for-7.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/slab: mm/slab: take n->list_lock in __slab_try_return_freelist() to avoid race mm/slab: disallow kfree_rcu_sheaf() on PREEMPT_RT again
2026-09-09mm: memblock: show all region flags in debugfsMeijing Zhao
Commit 493f349e38d0 ("memblock: Add flags and nid info in memblock debugfs") made memblock_debug_show() stop after finding the first set flag. A memblock region can carry multiple flags, so the remaining flags are hidden from debugfs. Walk all bits in the region flags and print every set flag separated by "|". Keep walking beyond flagname[] so that a set flag without a known name is reported as UNKNOWN rather than silently ignored. Fixes: 493f349e38d0 ("memblock: Add flags and nid info in memblock debugfs") Signed-off-by: Meijing Zhao <zhaomeijing@lixiang.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260902075944.3742866-1-zhaomeijing100@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-09-08mm/folio: EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_KVM(lru_cache_drain_for_folio)Ackerley Tng
To simplify independent development in the KVM and MM subsystems, now export to KVM the lru_cache_drain_for_folio() which MM added in 7.3-rc1. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/bd6c9c74-e374-a9d3-ba1f-8b6f430894fc@google.com/T/#u Link: https://lore.kernel.org/02876cea-5727-2ca4-bead-73659ea6fec4@google.com Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Binbin Wu <binbin.wu@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-08mm/shrinker: fix bogus set_shrinker_bit() with cgroup.memory=nokmemJiayuan Chen
With cgroup.memory=nokmem, shrinker_memcg_alloc() bails out early and never allocates an id, so shrinker->id keeps the 0 it got from the kzalloc() in shrinker_alloc(). __list_lru_init() then copies that 0 into lru->shrinker_id, where it looks like a valid bit index. Nothing calls expand_shrinker_info() on nokmem either, so shrinker_nr_max stays 0 and every memcg ends up with an empty map (map_nr_max == 0). deferred_split_folio() hands a real memcg to __list_lru_add() regardless of whether the lru is memcg aware, so the first THP queued in a cgroup does set_shrinker_bit(memcg, nid, 0) and trips the bounds check: WARNING: mm/shrinker.c:212 at set_shrinker_bit+0x7d/0x90, CPU#126 Call Trace: <TASK> deferred_split_folio+0x18c/0x220 map_anon_folio_pmd_nopf+0xdd/0x130 map_anon_folio_pmd_pf+0x14/0xb0 do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x1a1/0x620 __handle_mm_fault+0xea9/0x10d0 handle_mm_fault+0xe5/0x320 do_user_addr_fault+0x1cc/0x870 exc_page_fault+0x81/0x1b0 asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30 </TASK> Harmless, the WARN_ON_ONCE() is what keeps the out of bounds unit[] read from happening, but the id should not look valid in the first place. Clear it before returning. Two other spots could paper over this: drop the id in __list_lru_init() when nokmem turns memcg_aware off, or make deferred_split_folio() pass NULL like list_lru_add_obj() does. Both leave shrinker->id lying around for the next caller, so fix it where the id is handed out. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260902073800.305481-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev Fixes: fafaeceb89a5 ("mm: switch deferred split shrinker to list_lru") Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-08mm/vma: correctly unaccount on mmap_prepare() failureLorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
__mmap_setup() accounts memory for relevant mappings via: security_vm_enough_memory_mm() -> __vm_enough_memory() -> vm_acct_memory() If __mmap_setup() fails, this indicates that this accounting did not take place, and thus it's appropriate for __mmap_region() to jump to abort_munmap. However if call_mmap_prepare() fails, it also jumps there and any accounted memory is not correctly unaccounted. Fix this by handling each error separately. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260902-fix-unaccount-mmap_prepare-v1-1-ea070189fdfb@kernel.org Fixes: c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-05mm/mlock: use the IRQ-safe accessor for NR_MLOCK in __munlock_folio()Shakeel Butt
NR_MLOCK is updated from interrupt context. __free_pages_prepare() clears a stray PG_mlocked and adjusts NR_MLOCK, and a folio can reach it with the flag still set from a bio completion handler: __free_pages_ok+0x6af/0x7a0 <IRQ> __bio_release_pages+0xde/0x260 __iomap_dio_bio_end_io+0x16e/0x1a0 blk_update_request+0x14b/0x3d0 blk_mq_end_request+0x18/0x30 blk_done_softirq+0x49/0x60 The folio gets there like this. A MAP_SHARED file mapping is mlocked, so its page cache folios carry PG_mlocked, and an O_DIRECT write sourced from that mapping GUP-pins those same folios. munlock() then runs mlock_vma_pages_range(), which clears VM_LOCKED before walking the page tables to munlock each folio. A concurrent hole punch reaches the folio through the rmap (i_mmap_rwsem, not mmap_lock) and can land inside that window: __folio_remove_rmap() -> munlock_vma_folio() sees VM_LOCKED already clear, so it neither queues the folio on the mlock batch nor takes a reference, and the pte it clears makes the pending mlock_pte_range() walk skip the folio at its !pte_present() check. filemap_remove_folio() then drops the page cache reference, leaving the bio's pin as the last one, released from the completion handler above. So __zone_stat_mod_folio() here needs interrupts disabled, not merely preemption, and __munlock_folio() has a path where they are not: when the folio has already been taken off the LRU by somebody else the function jumps straight to the counter update without taking the lruvec lock. The read-modify-write of the per-CPU NR_MLOCK diff can then be interrupted by the softirq above, and one of the two decrements is lost, leaving Mlocked in /proc/meminfo permanently overstated. Use zone_stat_mod_folio(). mod_zone_state()'s this_cpu_try_cmpxchg() is atomic against a same-CPU interrupt and retries, and on the path where the lruvec lock is held its cost is negligible next to the lock itself. The UNEVICTABLE_PG* events are deliberately left on the __ accessors: they occupy different vm_event_states slots from the UNEVICTABLE_PGCLEARED that __free_pages_prepare() bumps, and nothing updates those two from interrupt context. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260901180109.3797944-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Fixes: 2fbb0c10d1e8 ("mm/munlock: mlock_page() munlock_page() batch by pagevec") Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reported-by: syzbot+cd2073ee6d958a8d0fcd@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/6a931c5a.08e933ee.dbf97.0093.GAE@google.com/ Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-05mm: filemap: retain mapped dropbehind foliosWenjie Qi
Fault-around can map ready dropbehind folios without going through the normal page-cache lookup that clears dropbehind. A mapping represents a competing cached user, so retain the folio instead of forcibly unmapping it when writeback completes. For a mapped folio, folio_unmap_invalidate() can call unmap_mapping_folio(), which takes i_mmap_rwsem and may sleep. Retaining mapped folios avoids this path when folio_end_dropbehind() runs in non-preemptible task context. Tal was able to trigger a sleeping-in-atomic warning due to this [1]. Unmapped dropbehind folios continue through the existing invalidation path. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/4aba05e1a2c3b61cb337d373eb9b7a8db4ddd822.1788024049.git.qiwenjie@xiaomi.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/076bb01b-6fcf-4691-be8c-0e8507c9fe64@columbia.edu [1] Fixes: fb7d3bc41493 ("mm/filemap: drop streaming/uncached pages when writeback completes") Signed-off-by: Wenjie Qi <qiwenjie@xiaomi.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu> Tested-by: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-05memcg: avoid charging the root memcg from obj_cgroup_charge_pages()Shakeel Butt
obj_cgroup_charge_pages() resolves the objcg to its memcg and calls try_charge_memcg(), which does not short circuit the root memcg. That memcg can be the root memcg: obj_cgroup_is_root() reflects the memcg the objcg was created for and is never updated, while memcg_reparent_objcgs() does redirect objcg->memcg to the parent on rmdir. An objcg of a dying child of root therefore passes every obj_cgroup_is_root() filter but resolves to the root memcg. Folios keep the objcg they were charged with, so this is easy to reach through zswap: allocate anon memory in a cgroup, move the task out, remove the cgroup, then write to the root cgroup's memory.reclaim. The reclaimed folios are charged through the reparented objcg and end up in refill_stock() with the root memcg: WARNING: mm/memcontrol.c:2198 at refill_stock+0x644/0x940 refill_stock+0x644/0x940 try_charge_memcg+0x12d6/0x1570 __obj_cgroup_charge+0x35/0xf0 obj_cgroup_charge+0x1de/0x210 obj_cgroup_charge_zswap+0x83/0x270 zswap_store+0x1620/0x2000 swap_writeout+0x94c/0x14c0 shrink_folio_list+0x3388/0x52b0 [...] try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0x30d/0x830 user_proactive_reclaim+0x504/0x840 memory_reclaim+0x1f/0x30 Beyond the warning, the charge is asymmetric: obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages() skips refill_stock() for the root memcg, so the root's page counter grows and is never uncharged. It is not user visible, since memory.current is not exposed on the root, but it is a leak. Use try_charge(), which returns early for the root memcg, restoring the symmetry with obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(). The above sequence was scripted into a standalone reproducer (zswap on, swap on a virtio disk, 512MB of anon memory faulted in inside a child of the root cgroup, the task then migrated to the root cgroup, the child removed, followed by "echo 600M swappiness=max > memory.reclaim" on the root) and run in a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y VM. It reproduces the splat on the first zswap store of a reparented folio, with the same call chain as the report. With this patch applied the splat is gone while the zswap store count over the run is unchanged, so the same path is still exercised. cgroup selftests test_zswap, test_kmem and test_memcontrol show no new failures. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260829023251.474083-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Fixes: 20d6c1725228 ("memcg: avoid refill_stock for root memcg") Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reported-by: Farhad Alemi <farhad.alemi@berkeley.edu> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CA+0ovCgWzUMK+nNbbtH7eV65Ca=fDN4Ozu7iASgryjvv8Tk8zQ@mail.gmail.com/ Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-05mm, swap: fix SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT collision with real usage countNhat Pham
SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT is embedded in the si->inuse_pages usage counter, and is meant to sit above any value that counter can reach. However, it is defined from BITS_PER_TYPE(atomic_t), so it is bit 30. On a system with 4 KiB pages the flag collides with the usage count once that count reaches 4 TiB. swap_usage_in_pages() masks bit 30 out, so whenever the real count has that bit set, every caller of it reads 4 TiB low: * /proc/swaps understates Used by 4 TiB. * A raw count of exactly 2^30 masks to zero, so try_to_unuse() takes its "if (!swap_usage_in_pages(si)) goto success;" early exit and swapoff tears the device down while pages are still swapped out. Nothing in the rest of swapoff aborts the teardown, so those pages are lost. Independently of swapoff, the collision also corrupts the counter and the plist. On a device in normal use, a free that leaves bit 30 set in the count makes swap_usage_sub() see the flag where there is only count, and call add_to_avail_list(). It clears the bit with fetch_and(~SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT), leaving the stored count 4 TiB below the real one, and calls plist_add() on a device that is already listed, tripping the WARN_ON(!plist_node_empty(node)) in plist_add() and linking the node a second time. Change the definition of SWAP_USAGE_OFFLIST_BIT to be based on atomic_long_t instead. Note that the usage counter field itself is of this same type, so it is still a valid bit. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260828191433.3304458-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Fixes: b228386cf237 ("mm, swap: clean up plist removal and adding") Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260825153238.2695446-1-nphamcs%40gmail.com Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-05mm/mremap: account mm->locked_vm correctly for MREMAP_DONTUNMAPLorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
When a VMA is mremap()'d with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP set, that results in the VMA being copied, but the source VMA not being unmapped. If the VMA is mlock()'d this is a legal operation, though the source VMA has its VMA_LOCKED_BIT cleared. However this is done in dontunmap_complete(), after mm->locked_vm was incremented via vrm_stat_account(), resulting in double-counting. Worse, this is not even corrected when source VMA is unmapped, due to the VMA_LOCKED_BIT flag having been cleared. This all works fine in the usual mremap() case (without MREMAP_DONTUNMAP), as the source VMA is unmapped with VMA_LOCKED_BIT intact, at which time mm->locked_vm is decremented accordingly. Resolve the issue by invoking vrm_stat_account() only after dontunmap_complete() has run. Note that MREMAP_DONTUNMAP requires old_len == new_len, so no need to account for a delta in size in this case. The bug was introduced by commit b714ccb02a76 ("mm/mremap: complete refactor of move_vma()") which incorrectly reordered the accounting and the clearing of the VMA_LOCKED_BIT flag. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260828-mremap-fix-locked-vm-v1-1-c80be7505d1e@kernel.org Fixes: b714ccb02a76 ("mm/mremap: complete refactor of move_vma()") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260825-fix-mremap-dontunmap-pgoff-v1-1-39a40b2c98b3@kernel.org Reported-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260828094823.594279-1-kunwu.chan@linux.dev/ Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Tested-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-05mm/huge_memory: bypass THP tuneables for huge pfnmap mappingsLorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
The sysfs THP tuneables at /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_huge_pages/ rather confusingly only control the behaviour of THP in some instances. They are not applicable to MADV_COLLAPSE operations, nor to DAX mappings. Long-term, THP is predicated upon compaction being able to obtain large folios to populate THP ranges. However, vm_normal_folio() returns NULL for PFN map mappings, thus their reference count is maintained by the driver, not core mm. As a consequence, the folios are not subject to reclaim nor compaction, so are not truly part of the THP mechanism at all. However, since commit 5dd40721f147 ("mm: allow THP orders for PFNMAPs") introduced the ability to establish huge PFN maps, they have been subject to THP tuneables. This is incorrect - if a huge PFN map is available (defined by vma->vm_ops->huge_fault being non-NULL for a VMA_PFNMAP_BIT VMA), then it should be mapped huge upon fault-in. Correct this by explicitly checking for this while ensuring that smaps continues to accurately report THPeligible statistics. While here, abstract the entire file-backed THP check in vma_can_map_huge_file(), with sensible separation of logic into helper functions. Note that drm_gem_shmem_mmap() and panthor_gem_mmap() establish huge PFN maps of shmem folios, however they are marked unevictable in drm_gem_get_pages(), and in any case would fail the reference check in __remove_mapping() even if they weren't. Failing to map huge PFN maps has resulted in significant real-world performance degradation, see links for details. [ziy@nvidia.com: rename some functions] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/DL1HIHWYJ7TB.1CY76SJS0V03L@nvidia.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260827-hugepfn-allowable-orders-v1-1-94819c8807c8@kernel.org Fixes: 5dd40721f147 ("mm: allow THP orders for PFNMAPs") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reported-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260805055544.1568534-1-clg@redhat.com/ Reported-by: Saravanan D <saravanand@crusoe.ai> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260821070520.25759-1-saravanand@crusoe.ai/ Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Saravanan D <saravanand@crusoe.ai> Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-04treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversionsKees Cook
This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc() family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's "--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control flow indicator I could find. Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc, riscv, and s390 with no new warnings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1] Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
2026-09-04mm/slab: take n->list_lock in __slab_try_return_freelist() to avoid raceHarry Yoo (Meta)
Commit ba7425312607 ("mm, slab: add an optimistic __slab_try_return_freelist()") incorrectly assumed that nobody has freed an object to the slab as long as slab->freelist is NULL and cmpxchg succeeds. However, as reported by Hyunwoo Kim [1], other CPUs might have freed an object to the slab, insert the slab to the partial list, then allocated an object from the slab, and be in the middle of removing the slab from the list under n->list_lock. Since __refill_objects_node() puts the slab back on pc.slabs outside n->list_lock, it might insert the slab into that list while the slab is concurrently being removed from n->partial. This led to a list corruption [1]: list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffff888100000248), but was dead000000000122. (next=ffffea000416e410). kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:29! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 1 UID: 65534 PID: 144 Comm: poc Not tainted 7.2.0-16172-gcf72cbb39da8-dirty #1 PREEMPT(lazy) RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0x80/0xd0 ... Call Trace: alloc_from_new_slab+0x183/0x300 ___slab_alloc+0x31c/0x890 __kmalloc_noprof+0x3d4/0x800 lsm_blob_alloc+0x2d/0x50 security_msg_msg_alloc+0x26/0x90 load_msg+0x1aa/0x210 do_msgsnd+0x91/0x800 do_syscall_64+0x109/0x5d0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f ... Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception This is a classic ABA problem where cmpxchg succeeds but the state has changed since __refill_objects_node() took the freelist from the slab. As Vlastimil Babka mentioned [2], it should be rare to return more than one slab (due to the racy read of slab->counters in get_partial_node_bulk()). Therefore, instead of introducing additional complexity, acquire and release n->list_lock twice in the worst case. Return the slab directly to the partial list and hold n->list_lock across the cmpxchg and add_partial(). This is similar to the initial version of commit ba7425312607 [3]. This is enough to avoid the race as the list manipulation is serialized by n->list_lock. While at it, bring back unlikely() hint now that the condition is unlikely. Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/apPa-cGLcyt90l-E@v4bel [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ae25c193-b95f-40c1-83b6-1c2546467e41@kernel.org [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260421-b4-refill-optimistic-return-v1-1-24f0bfc1acff@kernel.org [3] Fixes: ba7425312607 ("mm, slab: add an optimistic __slab_try_return_freelist()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo (Meta) <harry@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260903-slab-fix-aba-v3-1-b44cb6badd54@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2026-09-04mm/slab: disallow kfree_rcu_sheaf() on PREEMPT_RT againVlastimil Babka (SUSE)
This partially reverts commit 2a8bb29ec9b2 ("mm/slab: allow kfree_rcu_sheaf() on PREEMPT_RT"). It was based on the assumption that local_trylock() is safe on PREEMPT_RT from any context. However kvfree_rcu() is also called by set_cpus_allowed_force() with task_struct::pi_lock acquired and there it's not safe, as syzbot has reported. For the immediate fix, skip kfree_rcu_sheaf() on PREEMPT_RT again from kvfree_call_rcu(). In theory, kfree_rcu_nolock() would have the same problem when called from under pi_lock on PREEMPT_RT but that can be addressed if such a caller is proposed. Add an explanation comment, courtesy of Sebastian. Reported-by: syzbot+acf142088e0182172e58@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=acf142088e0182172e58 Reported-by: ThangNN99 <ngocthang2710.1999@gmail.com> Fixes: 2a8bb29ec9b2 ("mm/slab: allow kfree_rcu_sheaf() on PREEMPT_RT") Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260831-b4-kfree_rcu_hotfix-v1-1-4f0fb882638b@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Meta) <harry@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
2026-09-03mm/secretmem: properly account locked pagesLorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
secretmem accounts folios by treating memory as if it were mlock()'d and thus limited by the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit. However the folios are unevictable and remain so until the inode is evicted, eliminating usual mlock() semantics - mapping folios then unmapping them does not clear their unevictable state, since it depends on AS_UNEVICTABLE, not PG_mlocked. A user can therefore easily work around the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit - simply map then unmap and VmLck no longer counts the secretmem range. Worse, folios are not accounted in the process's RSS, meaning the OOM killer won't know to kill the process. Repeatedly mapping/unmapping (or forking) can then result in the consumption of all available system memory with unevictable folios and cause system instability. A secretmem fd can be passed between processes and over fork so a per-process limit simply does not make sense, so follow the precedent set by io_uring, perf, skbuff, iommufd and xdp by tracking the number of locked pages in user_struct->locked_vm. Since the scope tracked is actually inode lifetime, the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK applies per-user not per-process, so it doesn't make sense to bypass for users with CAP_IPC_LOCK, therefore remove this bypass. There is simply no reason to carry on marking the mapping as mlock()'d since it's misleading and the lifecycle is now correctly handled, so remove this too. Note that secretmem does not support any form of truncation (including hole punching) and the folios are unreclaimable, so the folios need only be accounted on fault and unaccounted on inode destruction. __secretmem_account_pages() is more or less a duplicate of the code that io_uring etc. use, but since this is a bug fix that needs backporting, defer any de-duplication efforts to a follow-up. test_mlock_limit() asserts mlock_future_ok() on mmap(), however this has been removed, so remove the test altogether for the fix. A new test will be sent separately for upstream. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260826-secretmem-accounting-v3-1-94cb04399510@kernel.org Fixes: 1507f51255c9 ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Reported-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260813225328.2010303-1-4ncienth@gmail.com/ Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Tested-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net> Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@kernel.org> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> 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>
2026-09-03mm/mremap: reset unfaulted VMA page offset for MREMAP_DONTUNMAPLorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
Uniquely an mremap() invocation using the MREMAP_DONTUNMAP flag can reset a faulted VMA into an unfaulted one. It does so after the page tables have been moved to the copied VMA with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP leaving the old VMA in place which is naturally unfaulted as the page tables it had are no longer present. However, in doing so, it violates the invariant that the anonymous page offset of an unfaulted VMA is vma->vm_start >> PAGE_SHIFT. This is because a VMA may have been faulted in, mremap()'d (causing a delta between its page offset and vma->vm_start >> PAGE_SHIFT), and then mremap()'d again with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP resulting in the unfaulting. This condition is a violation of a fundamental assumption in mm, but now also triggers an assert in assert_sane_pgoff() which explicitly checks for this condition. Correct it by resetting the VMA's page offset at the point of completing the MREMAP_DONTUNMAP operation. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260825-fix-mremap-dontunmap-pgoff-v1-1-39a40b2c98b3@kernel.org Fixes: 1583aa278f5f ("mm: mremap: unlink anon_vmas when mremap with MREMAP_DONTUNMAP success") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Reported-by: syzbot+f12658786a4153df5113@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a87853b.ae6ddae5.3da009.0023.GAE@google.com/ Tested-by: syzbot+f12658786a4153df5113@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-01mm/hugetlb: fix missing migratable flag on same-node hugetlb migrationWupeng Ma
Commit ba23f58de896 ("mm/migrate: don't call folio_putback_active_hugetlb() on dst hugetlb folio") moved setting of the migratable flag and active-list placement from folio_putback_active_hugetlb(dst) into move_hugetlb_state(), so that the freshly allocated destination folio is handled where allocation is known to have succeeded. Unfortunately, the new code was appended after the existing temporary-folio block in move_hugetlb_state(), which contains an early return added earlier by commit 5af1ab1d24e08 ("mm/hugetlb: optimize the surplus state transfer code in move_hugetlb_state()"): if (folio_test_hugetlb_temporary(new_folio)) { ... if (new_nid == old_nid) return; <-- skips the new code ... } /* added by ba23f58 */ folio_set_hugetlb_migratable(new_folio); list_move_tail(&new_folio->lru, ...&h->hugepage_activelist); When the destination folio is temporary (i.e. the hugetlb pool was exhausted and the migration callback fell back to alloc_migrate_hugetlb_folio()) and the migration does not cross a node -- the common case, and always true on a single-NUMA system -- move_hugetlb_state() returns before setting the migratable flag or adding the new folio to the active list. The destination folio is then installed in the page table but cannot be isolated afterwards, since folio_isolate_hugetlb() rejects folios without the migratable flag; a subsequent soft-offline, hard-offline or memory-hotplug offline of that folio fails with -EBUSY. This was reproduced on a single-NUMA arm64 VM: a second MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE on an already-migrated hugetlb page returned EBUSY and logged "hugepage isolation failed". Keep the surplus adjustment, which is the only part that depends on the node crossing, guarded by `if (new_nid != old_nid)', while making the migratable flag and active-list placement unconditional. This preserves the cleanup intent of ba23f58 and closes the early-return hole. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260707110254.3147686-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com Fixes: ba23f58de896 ("mm/migrate: don't call folio_putback_active_hugetlb() on dst hugetlb folio") Signed-off-by: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-01mm/mempolicy: fix sleeping allocation in alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave()Eric Dumazet
syzbot reported a sleeping function called from invalid context splat in bucket_table_alloc(). When rhashtable_insert_slow() rehashes the table under rcu_read_lock(), it calls bucket_table_alloc(..., GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN). If the bucket table allocation uses vmalloc, __vmalloc_node_range_noprof() invokes vm_area_alloc_pages() -> alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy_noprof() with the passed GFP_ATOMIC flags. If the current task has an MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE mempolicy, alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave() is called and currently hardcodes GFP_KERNEL when allocating the temporary weights array, triggering a might_alloc() splat in atomic/RCU contexts. Pass the gfp flags (masked with GFP_RECLAIM_MASK to strip page-allocator zone modifiers like __GFP_HIGHMEM) received by alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave() to kmalloc() instead of hardcoding GFP_KERNEL. Since the weights buffer is immediately initialized in full, kmalloc() is sufficient. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260821170407.3721004-1-edumazet@google.com Fixes: fa3bea4e1f82 ("mm/mempolicy: introduce MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE for weighted interleaving") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: syzbot+0dbf6d295b3350944f0b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6a88837e.ae6ddae5.3da009.0040.GAE@google.com/T/#u Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-01mm/huge_memory: transfer the pmd dirty bit to the folio on zapUsama Arif
zap_huge_pmd_folio() propagates the pmd young bit to the folio for the file case, but not the dirty bit. The pte path does propagate it, in zap_present_folio_ptes() and so does the pmd split path, in __split_huge_pmd_locked(). For most file mappings the omission is harmless, because writing to a shared file mapping goes through page_mkwrite(), which dirties the folio. tmpfs is different: it has no page_mkwrite(), and vma_wants_writenotify() is false for it, so a *read* fault on a MAP_SHARED tmpfs mapping installs a writable pmd via do_read_fault(). do_read_fault() does not call fault_dirty_shared_page(), so subsequent stores through that mapping set only the hardware dirty bit in the pmd and never call folio_mark_dirty(). A shmem folio allocated by a fault is marked uptodate but not dirty (see the clear: block in shmem_get_folio_gfp()), so PG_dirty is never set at all. Unmapping such a folio - munmap(), or exit_mmap() when the process dies - then loses the only record that it was written, because zap_huge_pmd() drops the pmd without transferring the dirty bit. Reclaim afterwards sees a clean shmem folio: the whole swap-out block in shrink_folio_list() is inside "if (folio_test_dirty(folio))", so pageout() is skipped and the folio falls into __remove_mapping(). There, folio_is_file_lru() is false for a swapbacked folio, so no shadow entry is created and __filemap_remove_folio(folio, NULL) simply empties the i_pages slot. The data is freed without ever being written to swap, and the next fault on that index returns a freshly zeroed folio. This is silent data loss for any process that keeps state in a MAP_SHARED tmpfs segment across an unmap - for example a cache handed from one process generation to the next through /dev/shm. It requires the folio to be PMD-mapped, so it only shows up once shmem THP is enabled (which is what we did in Meta fleet and started noticing crashes); with THP off the pte path transfers the dirty bit correctly. It also only becomes visible when swap is enabled, because with no swap device shmem folios (which are on the anon LRU) are not scanned by reclaim at all, so the clean folio is never dropped. Reproduced on x86_64 with a tmpfs mounted huge=within_size: read-fault a 2MB-backed region, write a known pattern through the resulting mapping, munmap, force reclaim of the cgroup, then re-map and read back. Without this patch the region reads back as zeros and vmstat shows zswpout 0 - the data was discarded rather than swapped. With this patch the region reads back correctly and the pages are swapped out as expected. With huge=never, or when the first touch is a write, the test passes either way. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260819101222.3732660-1-usama.arif@linux.dev Fixes: b5072380eb61 ("thp: support file pages in zap_huge_pmd()") Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-01userfaultfd: reset err to be 0 when move_pages_ptes succeededBryan Lim
During move_pages() operation, when move_pages_ptes() returns EAGAIN, the error code is not cleared even after we processed it. This leads to a successful retry but then the same pages are retried again due to the stale error code. This time move fails because pages are already moved, loop is terminated and move_pages() reports a failure. Clear the error code once we processes EAGAIN. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/e1e0b5f8-c3c6-0537-670b-4397f822f980@gmail.com Fixes: 50944692052b ("userfaultfd: opportunistic TLB-flush batching for present pages in MOVE") Assisted-by: ChatGPT:GPT-5.6-Luna Signed-off-by: Bryan Lim <foxieflakey@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-01mm: fix incorrect vm_flags usage when checking allowable orders for tmpfsBaolin Wang
Lance reported that when nothing else causes the mm to be considered for khugepaged collapse, an MADV_HUGEPAGE-advised tmpfs VMA alone does not trigger scanning. After commit 6beeab870e70 ("mm: shmem: move shmem_huge_global_enabled() into shmem_allowable_huge_orders()"), the shmem/tmpfs allowable order check reads vma->flags directly. However, when MADV_HUGEPAGE is handled, khugepaged_enter_vma() is called before the VMA's flags have been updated, so the check uses stale flags and incorrectly rejects the VMA for collapse. As a result, khugepaged does not collapse the tmpfs file into PMD order in time. Fix this by calling khugepaged_enter_vma() with the new VMA flags in madvise_update_vma(). Meanwhile we can remove the khugepaged_enter_vma() in hugepage_madvise(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/7d5b5eb27be798f89d563b06254c947ff53db0b2.1787020910.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: 6beeab870e70 ("mm: shmem: move shmem_huge_global_enabled() into shmem_allowable_huge_orders()") Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Reported-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260815181632.21453-1-lance.yang@linux.dev/ Suggested-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-01mm/hugetlb: keep max_huge_pages when dissolving surplus foliosLonglong Xia
dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio() can remove a free folio as surplus when its node has surplus pages. In that case remove_hugetlb_folio() decrements both nr_huge_pages and surplus_huge_pages, leaving the persistent pool size unchanged. Updating max_huge_pages as if a persistent folio had been removed can therefore corrupt the persistent pool target and underflow it when max_huge_pages is zero. Keep max_huge_pages unchanged for surplus folios, including the vmemmap restoration rollback path. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260814083027.1419487-1-xialonglong2025@163.com Fixes: cb402bbdabca ("mm/hugetlb: fix surplus pages in dissolve_free_huge_page()") Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Signed-off-by: Longlong Xia <xialonglong@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Jinjiang Tu <tujinjiang@huawei.com> Cc: Longlong Xia <xialonglong@kylinos.cn> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-01mm/migrate_device: avoid out-of-bounds writes for compound foliosHui Su
migrate_device_range() and migrate_device_pfns() clear the entries following a compound folio so that the PFN arrays retain their page-granular representation. If a compound folio extends beyond the end of the caller-provided range, the loops clear all following folio entries without limiting them to the number of slots remaining in the npages-sized array, causing an out-of-bounds write. Do not proceed with a compound folio if its page-granular representation does not fit entirely in the remaining PFN array. If this happens, drop any reference and lock acquired for the folio, clear the remaining entries, and stop collecting. Observed with a KASAN x86 QEMU kernel using the HMM migrate_anon_huge_zero selftest. Closing /dev/hmm_dmirror0 after migrating an anonymous huge page to device memory exercises: dmirror_fops_release() -> dmirror_device_evict_chunk() -> migrate_device_range() Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260817120758.669807-3-sh_def@163.com Fixes: a30b48bf1b24 ("mm/migrate_device: implement THP migration of zone device pages") Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@163.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-01mm/hugetlb_cgroup: call page_counter_set_max() outside VM_BUG_ON()Narek Jilavyan
hugetlb_cgroup_css_alloc() rounds the counter limit down to a multiple of the huge page size and then applies it inside an assertion: VM_BUG_ON(page_counter_set_max(fault, limit)); VM_BUG_ON(page_counter_set_max(rsvd, limit)); With CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=n, VM_BUG_ON(cond) is BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID(cond), i.e. ((void)(sizeof((__force long)(cond)))), whose operand is never evaluated. page_counter_set_max() is not a predicate - it performs xchg(&counter->max, nr_pages) - so on every non-debug kernel the limit is never applied and the counters keep page_counter_init()'s PAGE_COUNTER_MAX. That is user-visible, because hugetlb_cgroup_read_u64_max() recomputes the same rounded value and uses equality as its "unlimited" sentinel. PAGE_COUNTER_MAX is LONG_MAX / PAGE_SIZE = 2251799813685247, which is odd, so round_down() really does change it and the two sides disagree. With CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=n: $ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/t/hugetlb.2MB.max 9223372036854771712 and with this patch: $ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/t/hugetlb.2MB.max max A debug option should not change cgroup output. Call the function, then assert the result, as v6.12 did. Use VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() rather than restoring VM_BUG_ON(): the two are identical under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=n, and checkpatch asks that new code not use BUG() variants. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260817103433.191266-1-njilav@gmail.com Fixes: 0e2759afcaf9 ("page_counter: track failcnt only for legacy cgroups") Signed-off-by: Narek Jilavyan <njilav@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-01memcg: make the v1 soft limit knob inertShakeel Butt
The v1 soft limit has been deprecated since v6.12 and nobody has reported depending on it. Start the removal by decoupling the interface from the implementation: keep memory.soft_limit_in_bytes, but ignore writes to it and always report the maximum value on read similar to what memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes already does. Writes are still parsed, so malformed input keeps returning -EINVAL. The knob now also behaves the same everywhere: it used to return -EOPNOTSUPP on PREEMPT_RT, where soft limit reclaim has always been disabled. This also fixes the syzbot report linked below. Soft limit reclaim is the only caller that runs shrink_lruvec() from kswapd against a specific memcg, so it is the only way to reach lru_gen_shrink_lruvec() and in turn set_mm_walk(), which warns when called from kswapd. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260811203203.3456029-2-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reported-by: syzbot+12ee2725d5fde63a9c96@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a7a6929.b50370da.49fe0.005e.GAE@google.com/ Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-09-01mm/hugetlb_cma: fix null nodemask dereference in hugetlb_cma_alloc_frozen_folioSourav Panda
alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio_with_mpol() can pass a NULL nodemask to alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio() as a fallback to allocate from all nodes. If order is gigantic, alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio() propagates the NULL nodemask down to hugetlb_cma_alloc_frozen_folio() via alloc_gigantic_frozen_folio(). Additionally, hugetlb_cma_alloc_frozen_folio() previously attempted allocation on hugetlb_cma[nid] without verifying if nid is included in the caller's nodemask. Adding a node_isset(nid, *nodemask) check ensures the initial preferred node allocation honors the memory policy / nodemask. However, hugetlb_cma_alloc_frozen_folio() dereferences the nodemask in node_isset(nid, *nodemask) and for_each_node_mask(node, *nodemask), leading to a null pointer dereference kernel panic when nodemask is NULL. Fix this by checking if nodemask is NULL in hugetlb_cma_alloc_frozen_folio() and defaulting it to cpuset_current_mems_allowed. Enclose the allocation attempts within the cpuset seqcount retry loop so that if the cpuset changes concurrently during allocation, the attempts are retried using the updated nodemask. This ensures that the initial node check and fallback loop safely honor the task's cpuset without violating cpuset constraints or causing NULL pointer dereferences or unexpected allocation failures. From a userspace perspective, this bug allows an unprivileged user to crash the kernel (trigger a panic) by requesting a gigantic hugepage allocation with MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY on a system where CMA is only configured on a subset of NUMA nodes. This can be reproduced by booting a VM with two NUMA nodes, restricting CMA to Node 1 (e.g., hugetlb_cma=1:1G default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=0), and running a program that allocates a 1GB hugepage area without reserving, restricts allocation to Node 0 using mbind() with MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY, and triggers a page fault: void *ptr = mmap(NULL, 1UL << 30, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_HUGE_1GB | MAP_NORESERVE, -1, 0); unsigned long nodemask = 1; /* Node 0 */ mbind(ptr, 1UL << 30, MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY, &nodemask, sizeof(nodemask) * 8, 0); memset(ptr, 0, 1UL << 30); /* Trigger fault */ This results in a NULL pointer dereference: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI RIP: 0010:hugetlb_cma_alloc_frozen_folio+0x75/0x120 Call Trace: <TASK> only_alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio.isra.0+0x2c/0x160 alloc_surplus_hugetlb_folio+0x6d/0x100 alloc_hugetlb_folio+0x3c5/0x660 hugetlb_no_page+0x3d9/0x650 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260811052909.475635-1-souravpanda@google.com Fixes: eb02f14c4a2b ("mm/hugetlb: allow overcommitting gigantic hugepages") Signed-off-by: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>