From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Bas van Dijk <bas@dfinity.org>,
Eero Kelly <eero.kelly@dfinity.org>,
Andrew Battat <andrew.battat@dfinity.org>,
Adam Bratschi-Kaye <adam.bratschikaye@dfinity.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm/huge_memory: fix a folio_split() race condition with folio_try_get()
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:06:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260228010614.2536430-1-ziy@nvidia.com> (raw)
During a pagecache folio split, the values in the related xarray should not
be changed from the original folio at xarray split time until all
after-split folios are well formed and stored in the xarray. Current use
of xas_try_split() in __split_unmapped_folio() lets some after-split folios
show up at wrong indices in the xarray. When these misplaced after-split
folios are unfrozen, before correct folios are stored via __xa_store(), and
grabbed by folio_try_get(), they are returned to userspace at wrong file
indices, causing data corruption.
Fix it by using the original folio in xas_try_split() calls, so that
folio_try_get() can get the right after-split folios after the original
folio is unfrozen.
Uniform split, split_huge_page*(), is not affected, since it uses
xas_split_alloc() and xas_split() only once and stores the original folio
in the xarray.
Fixes below points to the commit introduces the code, but folio_split() is
used in a later commit 7460b470a131f ("mm/truncate: use folio_split() in
truncate operation").
Fixes: 00527733d0dc8 ("mm/huge_memory: add two new (not yet used) functions for folio_split()")
Reported-by: Bas van Dijk <bas@dfinity.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAKNNEtw5_kZomhkugedKMPOG-sxs5Q5OLumWJdiWXv+C9Yct0w@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 56db54fa48181..e4ed0404e8b55 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -3647,6 +3647,7 @@ static int __split_unmapped_folio(struct folio *folio, int new_order,
const bool is_anon = folio_test_anon(folio);
int old_order = folio_order(folio);
int start_order = split_type == SPLIT_TYPE_UNIFORM ? new_order : old_order - 1;
+ struct folio *origin_folio = folio;
int split_order;
/*
@@ -3672,7 +3673,13 @@ static int __split_unmapped_folio(struct folio *folio, int new_order,
xas_split(xas, folio, old_order);
else {
xas_set_order(xas, folio->index, split_order);
- xas_try_split(xas, folio, old_order);
+ /*
+ * use the original folio, so that a parallel
+ * folio_try_get() waits on it until xarray is
+ * updated with after-split folios and
+ * the original one is unfrozen.
+ */
+ xas_try_split(xas, origin_folio, old_order);
if (xas_error(xas))
return xas_error(xas);
}
--
2.51.0
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