Re: [PATCH] mm/huge_memory: fix override of entry in remove_migration_pmd

["David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 13.11.25 12:56, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 04:13:52PM +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
>> The softleaf changes exposed a BUG in remove_rmap_pmd() where the
>> migration entry was being overridden when the folio is device private.
>>
>> Use scope local entry for creating the device private pmde. Make the
>> pmde writable if the migration entry is writable by moving the check
>> softleaf_is_migration_write() prior to creating the device private entry.
>>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
>> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
>> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
>> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
>> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
>> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
>> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
>> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
>> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
>> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
>> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
>> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
>> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
>> Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
>> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>
>> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
>> Cc: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@redhat.com>
>> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
>> Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@intel.com>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
> 
> THe logic LGTM but we don't want to have a bisect hazard here by having the bug
> introduced earlier then resolved here.

Exactly.

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Cheers

David