From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
To: Bas van Dijk <bas@dfinity.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
regressions@lists.linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Eero Kelly <eero.kelly@dfinity.org>,
Andrew Battat <andrew.battat@dfinity.org>,
Adam Bratschi-Kaye <adam.bratschikaye@dfinity.org>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] madvise(MADV_REMOVE) corrupts pages in THP-backed MAP_SHARED memfd (bisected to 7460b470a131)
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:49:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CB5EF1C4-6285-4EEC-ABD0-A8870E7241E8@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKNNEtw5_kZomhkugedKMPOG-sxs5Q5OLumWJdiWXv+C9Yct0w@mail.gmail.com>
On 26 Feb 2026, at 15:34, Bas van Dijk wrote:
> #regzbot introduced: 7460b470a131f985a70302a322617121efdd7caa
>
> Hey folks,
>
> We discovered madvise(MADV_REMOVE) on a 4KiB range within a
> huge-page-backed MAP_SHARED memfd region corrupts nearby pages.
>
> Using the reproducible test in
> https://github.com/dfinity/thp-madv-remove-test this was bisected to the
> first bad commit:
>
> commit 7460b470a131f985a70302a322617121efdd7caa
> Author: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Date: Fri Mar 7 12:40:00 2025 -0500
>
> mm/truncate: use folio_split() in truncate operation
>
> v7.0-rc1 still has the regression.
>
> The repo mentioned above explains how to reproduce the regression and
> contains the necessary logs of failed runs on 7460b470a131 and v7.0-rc1, as
> well as a successful run on its parent 4b94c18d1519.
Thanks for the report. I will look into it.
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-26 20:34 Bas van Dijk
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2026-02-26 21:06 ` Zi Yan
2026-02-26 21:16 ` [External Sender] " Bas van Dijk
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