Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] mm/memory: Do not populate page table entries beyond i_size

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:32:50 +0100 Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:

> From: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
> 
> Accesses within VMA, but beyond i_size rounded up to PAGE_SIZE are
> supposed to generate SIGBUS.
> 
> Recent changes attempted to fault in full folio where possible. They did
> not respect i_size, which led to populating PTEs beyond i_size and
> breaking SIGBUS semantics.
> 
> Darrick reported generic/749 breakage because of this.
> 
> However, the problem existed before the recent changes. With huge=always
> tmpfs, any write to a file leads to PMD-size allocation. Following the
> fault-in of the folio will install PMD mapping regardless of i_size.
> 
> Fix filemap_map_pages() and finish_fault() to not install:
>   - PTEs beyond i_size;
>   - PMD mappings across i_size;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
> Fixes: 19773df031bc ("mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()")

Sep 28 2025

> Fixes: 357b92761d94 ("mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround")

Sep 28 2025

> Fixes: 800d8c63b2e9 ("shmem: add huge pages support")

Jul 26 2016

eek, what's this one doing here?  Are we asking -stable maintainers
to backport this patch into nine years worth of kernels?

I'll remove this Fixes: line for now...