From: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
kernel-team@fb.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/huge_memory: Prevent huge zeropage refcount corruption in PMD move
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:16:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aaBVz7eb6-VBCvaz@chrisdown.name> (raw)
After commit d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the
huge zero folio special"), moved huge zero PMDs must remain special so
vm_normal_page_pmd() continues to treat them as special mappings.
move_pages_huge_pmd() currently reconstructs the destination PMD in the
huge zero page branch, which drops PMD state such as pmd_special() on
architectures with CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL. As a result,
vm_normal_page_pmd() can treat the moved huge zero PMD as a normal page
and corrupt its refcount.
Instead of reconstructing the PMD from the folio, derive the destination
entry from src_pmdval after pmdp_huge_clear_flush(), then handle the PMD
metadata the same way move_huge_pmd() does for moved entries by marking
it soft-dirty and clearing uffd-wp.
Fixes: d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index fed57951a7cd..8166b5e871ad 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2794,7 +2794,8 @@ int move_pages_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd, pmd_t *src_pmd, pm
_dst_pmd = pmd_mkwrite(pmd_mkdirty(_dst_pmd), dst_vma);
} else {
src_pmdval = pmdp_huge_clear_flush(src_vma, src_addr, src_pmd);
- _dst_pmd = folio_mk_pmd(page_folio(src_page), dst_vma->vm_page_prot);
+ _dst_pmd = move_soft_dirty_pmd(src_pmdval);
+ _dst_pmd = clear_uffd_wp_pmd(_dst_pmd);
}
set_pmd_at(mm, dst_addr, dst_pmd, _dst_pmd);
--
2.51.2
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