The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-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-6.12.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 9658d698a8a83540bf6a6c80d13c9a61590ee985 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025101627-shortage-author-7f5b@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 9658d698a8a83540bf6a6c80d13c9a61590ee985 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lance Yang lance.yang@linux.dev Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:10:40 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage
When splitting an mTHP and replacing a zero-filled subpage with the shared zeropage, try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage() currently drops several important PTE bits.
For userspace tools like CRIU, which rely on the soft-dirty mechanism for incremental snapshots, losing the soft-dirty bit means modified pages are missed, leading to inconsistent memory state after restore.
As pointed out by David, the more critical uffd-wp bit is also dropped. This breaks the userfaultfd write-protection mechanism, causing writes to be silently missed by monitoring applications, which can lead to data corruption.
Preserve both the soft-dirty and uffd-wp bits from the old PTE when creating the new zeropage mapping to ensure they are correctly tracked.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250930081040.80926-1-lance.yang@linux.dev Fixes: b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp") Signed-off-by: Lance Yang lance.yang@linux.dev Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Suggested-by: Dev Jain dev.jain@arm.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Dev Jain dev.jain@arm.com Acked-by: Zi Yan ziy@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Liam.Howlett@oracle.com Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo harry.yoo@oracle.com Cc: Alistair Popple apopple@nvidia.com Cc: Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Cc: Barry Song baohua@kernel.org Cc: Byungchul Park byungchul@sk.com Cc: Gregory Price gourry@gourry.net Cc: "Huang, Ying" ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com Cc: Jann Horn jannh@google.com Cc: Joshua Hahn joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Cc: Mariano Pache npache@redhat.com Cc: Mathew Brost matthew.brost@intel.com Cc: Peter Xu peterx@redhat.com Cc: Rakie Kim rakie.kim@sk.com Cc: Rik van Riel riel@surriel.com Cc: Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts@arm.com Cc: Usama Arif usamaarif642@gmail.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: Yu Zhao yuzhao@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index ce83c2c3c287..e3065c9edb55 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -296,8 +296,7 @@ bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list) }
static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw, - struct folio *folio, - unsigned long idx) + struct folio *folio, pte_t old_pte, unsigned long idx) { struct page *page = folio_page(folio, idx); pte_t newpte; @@ -306,7 +305,7 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw, return false; VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page); VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page); - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pte_present(ptep_get(pvmw->pte)), page); + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pte_present(old_pte), page);
if (folio_test_mlocked(folio) || (pvmw->vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) || mm_forbids_zeropage(pvmw->vma->vm_mm)) @@ -322,6 +321,12 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
newpte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(pvmw->address), pvmw->vma->vm_page_prot)); + + if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(old_pte)) + newpte = pte_mksoft_dirty(newpte); + if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(old_pte)) + newpte = pte_mkuffd_wp(newpte); + set_pte_at(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, pvmw->address, pvmw->pte, newpte);
dec_mm_counter(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, mm_counter(folio)); @@ -364,13 +369,13 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio *folio, continue; } #endif + old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte); if (rmap_walk_arg->map_unused_to_zeropage && - try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(&pvmw, folio, idx)) + try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(&pvmw, folio, old_pte, idx)) continue;
folio_get(folio); pte = mk_pte(new, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot)); - old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
entry = pte_to_swp_entry(old_pte); if (!is_migration_entry_young(entry))