The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x ec33b59542d96830e3c89845ff833cf7b25ef172 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025112434-uncle-ethics-cb16@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From ec33b59542d96830e3c89845ff833cf7b25ef172 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:54:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mm/mempool: fix poisoning order>0 pages with HIGHMEM
The kernel test has reported:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffba000 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page *pde = 03171067 *pte = 00000000 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G T 6.18.0-rc2-00031-gec7f31b2a2d3 #1 NONE a1d066dfe789f54bc7645c7989957d2bdee593ca Tainted: [T]=RANDSTRUCT Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 EIP: memset (arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:168 arch/x86/lib/memcpy_32.c:17) Code: a5 8b 4d f4 83 e1 03 74 02 f3 a4 83 c4 04 5e 5f 5d 2e e9 73 41 01 00 90 90 90 3e 8d 74 26 00 55 89 e5 57 56 89 c6 89 d0 89 f7 <f3> aa 89 f0 5e 5f 5d 2e e9 53 41 01 00 cc cc cc 55 89 e5 53 57 56 EAX: 0000006b EBX: 00000015 ECX: 001fefff EDX: 0000006b ESI: fffb9000 EDI: fffba000 EBP: c611fbf0 ESP: c611fbe8 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010287 CR0: 80050033 CR2: fffba000 CR3: 0316e000 CR4: 00040690 Call Trace: poison_element (mm/mempool.c:83 mm/mempool.c:102) mempool_init_node (mm/mempool.c:142 mm/mempool.c:226) mempool_init_noprof (mm/mempool.c:250 (discriminator 1)) ? mempool_alloc_pages (mm/mempool.c:640) bio_integrity_initfn (block/bio-integrity.c:483 (discriminator 8)) ? mempool_alloc_pages (mm/mempool.c:640) do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1283)
Christoph found out this is due to the poisoning code not dealing properly with CONFIG_HIGHMEM because only the first page is mapped but then the whole potentially high-order page is accessed.
We could give up on HIGHMEM here, but it's straightforward to fix this with a loop that's mapping, poisoning or checking and unmapping individual pages.
Reported-by: kernel test robot oliver.sang@intel.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202511111411.9ebfa1ba-lkp@intel.com Analyzed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Fixes: bdfedb76f4f5 ("mm, mempool: poison elements backed by slab allocator") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: kernel test robot oliver.sang@intel.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113-mempool-poison-v1-1-233b3ef984c3@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz
diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c index 1c38e873e546..d7bbf1189db9 100644 --- a/mm/mempool.c +++ b/mm/mempool.c @@ -68,10 +68,20 @@ static void check_element(mempool_t *pool, void *element) } else if (pool->free == mempool_free_pages) { /* Mempools backed by page allocator */ int order = (int)(long)pool->pool_data; - void *addr = kmap_local_page((struct page *)element);
- __check_element(pool, addr, 1UL << (PAGE_SHIFT + order)); - kunmap_local(addr); +#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM + for (int i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++) { + struct page *page = (struct page *)element; + void *addr = kmap_local_page(page + i); + + __check_element(pool, addr, PAGE_SIZE); + kunmap_local(addr); + } +#else + void *addr = page_address((struct page *)element); + + __check_element(pool, addr, PAGE_SIZE << order); +#endif } }
@@ -97,10 +107,20 @@ static void poison_element(mempool_t *pool, void *element) } else if (pool->alloc == mempool_alloc_pages) { /* Mempools backed by page allocator */ int order = (int)(long)pool->pool_data; - void *addr = kmap_local_page((struct page *)element);
- __poison_element(addr, 1UL << (PAGE_SHIFT + order)); - kunmap_local(addr); +#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM + for (int i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++) { + struct page *page = (struct page *)element; + void *addr = kmap_local_page(page + i); + + __poison_element(addr, PAGE_SIZE); + kunmap_local(addr); + } +#else + void *addr = page_address((struct page *)element); + + __poison_element(addr, PAGE_SIZE << order); +#endif } } #else /* CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON */