kernel/git/stable/linux.git/mm, branch linux-7.1.y

mm/swap: reject swapon() on filesystem-level encrypted files

2026-09-02T12:32:38+00:00

commit c310a8932a3107c9bc8f01d473e9d085f8aa9c98 upstream. ext4 and f2fs don't prevent filesystem-level encrypted files from being set up directly as swap files. In this case, encryption is bypassed. No one should be doing this, vs. the methods of encrypted swap that actually do work (such as swapping to a dm-crypt device, or swapping to a loopback device on top of a filesystem-level encrypted file). Nevertheless, to prevent user error, make swapon() explicitly reject this case. Document this behavior in fscrypt.rst as well. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260803180426.3123-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Fixes: 9bd8212f981e ("ext4 crypto: add encryption policy and password salt support") Fixes: f424f664f0e8 ("f2fs crypto: add encryption policy and password salt support") Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Reviewed-by: Baoquan He Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Barry Song Cc: Chris Li Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/filemap: __filemap_add_folio() restore index before retrying

2026-08-19T16:20:31+00:00

commit 86da3f7e1e609e1e8bfbab198af68467c5a015a5 upstream. In __filemap_add_folio()'s split-a-conflict loop, xas_set_order() is applied repeatedly: each application modifies xas.xa_index, rounding it down according to the split_order attempted at that stage: and if all goes as intended, it eventually (or immediately) converges on an xas_try_split() to the required folio_order, with xas.xa_index now the same as index: then xas_store() puts the new folio into the xarray there. But if a new node was needed, and GFP_NOWAIT allocation did not get one, the lock is dropped, xas_nomem() used to allocate, and sequence retried. If (that part of) the xarray is unchanged when the lock is reacquired, no problem. But what if the conflict was meanwhile resolved by another thread (perhaps even doing the same thing, inserting a folio at that same index)? Isn't there a danger of now putting our folio into the xarray at an intermediate rounded-down index? With !folio_contains() bug to follow, when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y is checking for that. Fix this with an xas_set_order() to restore the original xas.xa_index at the bottom of the loop, so the retry does a full re-evaluation after reacquiring the lock, and cannot reach xas_store() with the wrong index. Production was suffering from rare SIGILLs and SIGSEGVs, executable text found a page away from where it belonged, !folio_contains() bug hit when debug enabled: symptoms not seen since this patch went in. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/562fbfa6-dd6d-0b6a-2461-ed2ff1173bc8@google.com Fixes: 200a89c159a7 ("mm/filemap: use xas_try_split() in __filemap_add_folio()") Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Cc: Chris J Arges Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/ptdump: always stabilise against page table freeing using init_mm

2026-08-19T16:20:30+00:00

commit 27c32e5538344b13c1505a08861e04620c125d47 upstream. Previous commits have established the invariant that kernel page table freeing is performed while an mmap read lock on init_mm is held, which fixes races between ptdump and kernel page table freeing over init_mm. However, x86 and arm64 can perform a ptdump over an mm other than init_mm via ptdump_walk_pgd() and since kernel memory ranges are shared across non-kernel mm's, this means that the race still exists for these cases. Fix this by acquiring a nested mmap write lock for init_mm in ptdump_walk_pgd(). This is safe as we take this after mmap write locking the mm, and nothing acquires the init_mm lock first before locking an arbitrary mm, so no deadlock is possible. Also update walk_page_range_debug() to assert that init_mm is write locked, add a comment explaining why and remove some redundant code, and eliminate the unnecessary and confusing invocation of walk_kernel_page_table_range(). We can safely remove the non-NULL check for walk.mm, as the mmap lock asserts would NULL pointer deref if it was (and of course no callers do this). The first point at which ptdump can race kernel page table freeing is commit b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table"), so we target this in the Fixes tag. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723-series-vmap-race-fix-v6-4-8cc77dcc0018@kernel.org Fixes: b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: "Borah, Chaitanya Kumar" Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Carlier Cc: Dev Jain Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/page_table_check: skip special zero mappings

2026-08-19T16:20:30+00:00

commit 8db4bab826ccc9ec10fa41736a48031cd338d392 upstream. page_table_check_set() and page_table_check_clear() account mappings based on PageAnon(). Shared zero-page PTEs and huge zero PMDs are special mappings, but page_table_check can still account them as file-backed pages. An unprivileged process can populate enough zero mappings to overflow file_map_count and hit the existing BUG_ON(). The PTE path can do this with the shared zero page, and the PMD path can do the same with huge zero mappings. Skip special zero mappings in the user page-table accounting paths. Keep the PTE-side pte_special() check, and identify huge zero PMDs from the mapped folio instead of pmd_special(). That covers architectures where pmd_special() is a no-op without adding huge_zero_pfn checks to the generic counter helpers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1784717203.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai Link: https://lore.kernel.org/e94478e4fb7912fb7e8ebebed5ce85d00dc9a69d.1784717203.git.zhilinz@nebusec.ai Fixes: df4e817b7108 ("mm: page table check") Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou Signed-off-by: Ren Wei Reported-by: Vega Cc: Pasha Tatashin Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4 Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm64: remove redundant concurrent ptdump UAF mitigation

2026-08-19T16:20:29+00:00

commit 9d3277b2c07ccc9508d648098b3bbb46c61b7f3c upstream. This partially reverts commit fa93b45fd397 ("arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump"), retaining vmalloc-huge support but eliminating the now redundant mitigation against a race between huge vmap page table freeing and ptdump, as this issue has now been fixed at core. We also simultaneously remove the arm64 if-deffery when acquiring the mmap read lock upon vmap huge page table promotion as it is no longer required. Note that this patch relies on the preceding vmalloc patch, and should not be backported alone. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723-series-vmap-race-fix-v6-5-8cc77dcc0018@kernel.org Fixes: fa93b45fd397 ("arm64: Enable vmalloc-huge with ptdump") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Reviewed-by: Dev Jain Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) Acked-by: Will Deacon Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: "Borah, Chaitanya Kumar" Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Carlier Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory: fix huge_zero_pfn race

2026-08-19T16:20:27+00:00

commit 33192a26cddea7a7e4ca66e5c3eebd36fa8be2bb upstream. Patch series "mm/huge_memory: fix huge_zero_pfn race", v2. There is a subtle race in the reference-counted huge_zero_folio implementation. The fast path atomic logic fails to account for the fact that the shrinker (which drops the final huge_zero_refcount pin) can overwrite huge_zero_pfn with the ~0UL sentinel value in shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() after a racing get_huge_zero_folio() installed a valid value there. This results in huge_zero_folio being correctly set but huge_zero_pfn being set incorrectly and thus is_huge_zero_pfn() and consequently is_huge_zero_pmd() will misidentify the huge zero folio as being an ordinary THP folio. This can result in the huge zero folio being split and otherwise treated incorrectly. The solution to this is very subtle as there is an atomic fast path, and thus ordering in weakly ordered architectures has to be treated very carefully. The first commit fixes the issue by introducing a spinlock around huge_zero_[pfn, folio, refcount] write, with careful consideration paid to load/store ordering in the fast path. It is placed first and kept as small as possible so that it can be backported on its own. The second commit is a pure cleanup which reworks the CONFIG_PERSISTENT_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO logic to better separate the persistent logic from the dynamically allocated one. This patch (of 2): If !CONFIG_PERSISTENT_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO, the huge_zero_folio is refcounted by huge_zero_refcount and returned by mm_get_huge_zero_folio(). When the caller is done with the huge zero page, its reference count is decremented. Only a shrinker can set the reference count to zero. A race can unfortunately occur between a shrinker decrementing the reference count to zero and a concurrent page fault. This is because shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() might, if very unlucky, be preempted between setting huge_zero_refcount to zero and writing an invalid value. During this time get_huge_zero_folio() could write to huge_zero_pfn before shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() resumes. In this event the huge zero folio will be persistently misidentified causing the THP code path to be entered inappropriately for the huge zero folio: CPU 0 CPU 1 =======================================|================================= shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() | atomic_cmpxchg() sets refcount to 0 | xchg() sets huge_zero_folio to NULL | get_huge_zero_folio() | | atomic_inc_not_zero() -> zero preempted for a long time | Allocate new huge zero folio | | Write valid huge_zero_folio v | Write valid huge_zero_pfn Overwrite huge_zero_pfn with ~0UL <--- Invalid overwrite! This results in is_huge_zero_pfn() and is_huge_zero_pmd() incorrectly returning false for a huge zero page which could result in issues like the huge zero folio being incorrectly split. Note that the issue is with huge_zero_pfn not huge_zero_folio, as get_huge_zero_folio() uses cmpxchg() gated on huge_zero_folio being NULL with a retry loop and shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() uses xchg() to set huge_zero_folio. Fix the issue by introducing a spinlock, huge_zero_lock, to prevent concurrent write of huge_zero_folio, huge_zero_pfn and huge_zero_refcount. There needs to be significant care taken here to ensure correctness: The fast path in get_huge_zero_folio() uses atomic_inc_not_zero(), which is outside of the critical section, and means huge zero allocation is gated on zero huge_zero_refcount. The fast path doesn't use huge_zero_lock, so the critical section is irrelevant to it. So invariants are required - huge_zero_refcount MUST: * Only be set in the huge_zero_lock critical section to ensure serialisation of huge_zero_pfn, huge_zero_folio and huge_zero_refcount writes. * Be set non-zero only AFTER huge_zero_[pfn, folio] are set to valid values so installation of the huge zero folio on read page fault ensures concurrent is_huge_zero_*() calls correctly identify the huge zero folio. * Be set zero only BEFORE huge_zero_[pfn, folio] are set to NULL and ~0UL respectively, and atomically. Establish these by: * Only setting huge_zero_refcount to zero or an absolute value in the huge_zero_lock critical section in get_huge_zero_folio() and shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan(), and always updating atomically there and elsewhere. * Using atomic_set_release(&huge_zero_refcount) in get_huge_zero_folio() after huge_zero_[pfn, folio] are set. This is paired with atomic_inc_not_zero() to ensure atomic_inc_not_zero() only observes a non-zero value if huge_zero_[pfn, folio] are set. * Using atomic_cmpxchg() in shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() (as before) to ensure that it is set zero only when equal to 1 and set atomically. * atomic_cmpxchg() being fully ordered ensures this is done prior to huge_zero_[folio, pfn] being set to NULL and ~0UL respectively. Eliminate the retry loop in get_huge_zero_folio() as the atomic_cmpxchg() in shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan() is now performed under the lock, and replace with an equally locked atomic_inc() to set the reference count should the caller be raced on huge zero folio installation. folio_put() naturally implies a full memory barrier so its ordering is maintained correctly. The huge zero folio also cannot be released except when the shrinker does so as it is non-LRU and non-rmappable. Note that only the huge zero shrinker (via shrink_huge_zero_folio_scan()) can actually set huge_zero_refcount to zero, which is the count of mm's which have at least one huge zero folio installed plus one shrinker pin. Additionally convert a BUG_ON() to a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260730-fix-refcounted-huge-zero-v2-0-c5d8a41b317f@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260730-fix-refcounted-huge-zero-v2-1-c5d8a41b317f@kernel.org Fixes: 3b77e8c8cde5 ("mm/thp: make is_huge_zero_pmd() safe and quicker") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Reported-by: Hengbin Zhang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260727154001.4102341-1-uqbarz@gmail.com/ Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Hannes Reinecke Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Pankaj Raghav Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory: initialise workingset state before folio split

2026-08-19T16:20:27+00:00

commit aca1f2d5de17e138bc6c4859126b77e516b82541 upstream. xas_try_split() adds __GFP_ACCOUNT for page-cache xa_nodes, but __folio_split() leaves the xa_state's xa_lru unset. That lets a live, memcg-charged xa_node exist without being linked into the mapping's shadow_nodes list_lru; when reclaim later walks the list_lru it trips VM_WARN_ON(!css_is_dying()). Use mapping_set_update() to install both the workingset update callback and the shadow_nodes list_lru on the xa_state. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260725101419.3938406-1-matt@readmodwrite.com Fixes: 58729c04cf10 ("mm/huge_memory: add buddy allocator like (non-uniform) folio_split()") Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Reported-by: syzbot+c5b060ce82921a2fd500@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c5b060ce82921a2fd500 Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/damon: adjust isolated pages stat for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD}

2026-08-19T16:20:26+00:00

commit 1ec0e6b6f7321feb769f50d2f094a0aa6c2eda63 upstream. Callers of migrate_pages() should adjust NR_MIGRATED_{ANON,FILE} for isolations and putback of the folios. That for migration succeeded folios is done by migrate_pages(), in migrate_folio_done(). That for MR_DEMOTION reason is an exception though. DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} call migrate_pages() but mistakenly not doing the stat adjustment. As a result, use of DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} could corrupt the stat. It could confuse too_many_isolated(), make compaction and reclaim to behave in unexpected ways. The stat corruption can be reproduced and confirmed using DAMON user-space tool [1] on NUMA systems, like below. $ numactl --hardware available: 2 nodes (0-1) [...] $ sudo ./damo start --damos_action migrate_hot 1 $ sudo cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh $ sudo dmesg [...] [ 80.215554] vmstat_refresh: nr_isolated_anon -5578 [ 80.216842] vmstat_refresh: nr_isolated_file -34400 This issue was discovered [2] by Sashiko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260728140404.94476-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://github.com/damonitor/damo [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260726164356.87940-1-sj@kernel.org [2] Fixes: b51820ebea65 ("mm/damon/paddr: introduce DAMOS_MIGRATE_COLD action for demotion") Signed-off-by: SJ Park Cc: Honggyu Kim Cc: Hyeongtak Ji Cc: # 6.11.x Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/damon/ops-common: putback folios on invalid migrate nid

2026-08-19T16:20:26+00:00

commit 5deb65c34e682e7c5f5df417a70e223e8fcc5f5a upstream. damon_pa_migrate() and damos_va_migrate() isolate folios into a local list and then call damon_migrate_pages(). When target_nid is invalid (including the scheme default NUMA_NO_NODE / -1), damon_migrate_pages() returns early without putting the folios back to the LRU. Callers then discard the list head while those folios remain isolated with an extra reference taken by folio_isolate_lru(). The pages stay off the LRU for as long as the mapping exists (anon active+inactive counts drop while RSS does not), and the leftover references can pin the pages after the mapping is gone. Put the folios back on the invalid-nid path so ignored migration requests still return them to the LRU. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260726014815.1280757-1-dayou5941@163.com Fixes: 7e6c3130690a ("mm/damon/ops-common: ignore migration request to invalid nodes") Assisted-by: Cursor:grok-4.5 Reviewed-by: SJ Park Signed-off-by: liyouhong Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/damon/lru_sort: error out for >10000 active_mem_bp

2026-08-19T16:20:26+00:00

commit 06befa61c427e74319781e6f35a364cfc32dbae8 upstream. damos_quota_score() can trigger division by zero if the target value is zero. DAMON_LRU_SORT lets users set the target value for the hot memory scheme via active_mem_bp parameter. It avoids setting it as the target value if the parameter value is zero. However, it also sets the cold memory scheme with a target value that is calculated as '10000 - active_mem_bp + 2'. Hence, if a user sets active_mem_bp 10002, the cold memory scheme's quota goal target value can be zero. As a result, division by zero can be triggered. Fix by returning an error when the user tries to start DAMON with >10000 active_mem_bp parameter value. It makes no sense to set active_mem_bp with 10002. It also requires module parameters write permission to reproduce the issue. That said, the consequence is quite bad. One reliable way to reproduce the issue is like below: # cd /sys/module/damon_lru_sort/parameters # echo 1000 > wmarks_high # echo 995 > wmarks_mid # echo 0 > wmarks_low # echo 10002 > active_mem_bp # echo Y > enabled # dmesg -w [...] [ 597.421247] Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI [ 597.428848] RIP: 0010:damos_quota_score+0x6f/0x480 This issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260803134034.15217-3-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260801213028.5127-1-sj@kernel.org [1] Fixes: 40d98d31cd70 ("mm/damon/lru_sort: support active:inactive memory ratio based auto-tuning") Signed-off-by: SJ Park Cc: # 7.0.x Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman