The patch titled Subject: mm/memory: do not populate page table entries beyond i_size has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-memory-do-not-populate-page-table-entries-beyond-i_size.patch
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Kiryl Shutsemau kas@kernel.org Subject: mm/memory: do not populate page table entries beyond i_size Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:56:35 +0000
Patch series "Fix SIGBUS semantics with large folios", v3.
Accessing memory within a VMA, but beyond i_size rounded up to the next page size, is supposed to generate SIGBUS.
Darrick reported[1] an xfstests regression in v6.18-rc1. generic/749 failed due to missing SIGBUS. This was caused by my recent changes that try to fault in the whole folio where possible:
19773df031bc ("mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()") 357b92761d94 ("mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround")
These changes did not consider i_size when setting up PTEs, leading to xfstest breakage.
However, the problem has been present in the kernel for a long time - since huge tmpfs was introduced in 2016. The kernel happily maps PMD-sized folios as PMD without checking i_size. And huge=always tmpfs allocates PMD-size folios on any writes.
I considered this corner case when I implemented a large tmpfs, and my conclusion was that no one in their right mind should rely on receiving a SIGBUS signal when accessing beyond i_size. I cannot imagine how it could be useful for the workload.
But apparently filesystem folks care a lot about preserving strict SIGBUS semantics.
Generic/749 was introduced last year with reference to POSIX, but no real workloads were mentioned. It also acknowledged the tmpfs deviation from the test case.
POSIX indeed says[3]:
References within the address range starting at pa and continuing for len bytes to whole pages following the end of an object shall result in delivery of a SIGBUS signal.
The patchset fixes the regression introduced by recent changes as well as more subtle SIGBUS breakage due to split failure on truncation.
This patch (of 2):
Accesses within VMA, but beyond i_size rounded up to PAGE_SIZE are supposed to generate SIGBUS.
Recent changes attempted to fault in full folio where possible. They did not respect i_size, which led to populating PTEs beyond i_size and breaking SIGBUS semantics.
Darrick reported generic/749 breakage because of this.
However, the problem existed before the recent changes. With huge=always tmpfs, any write to a file leads to PMD-size allocation. Following the fault-in of the folio will install PMD mapping regardless of i_size.
Fix filemap_map_pages() and finish_fault() to not install: - PTEs beyond i_size; - PMD mappings across i_size;
Make an exception for shmem/tmpfs that for long time intentionally mapped with PMDs across i_size.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251027115636.82382-1-kirill@shutemov.name Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251027115636.82382-2-kirill@shutemov.name Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau kas@kernel.org Fixes: 19773df031bc ("mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()") Fixes: 357b92761d94 ("mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround") Fixes: 01c70267053d ("fs: add a filesystem flag for THPs") Reported-by: "Darrick J. Wong" djwong@kernel.org Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Cc: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Cc: Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Hugh Dickins hughd@google.com Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Liam Howlett liam.howlett@oracle.com Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Mike Rapoport rppt@kernel.org Cc: Rik van Riel riel@surriel.com Cc: Shakeel Butt shakeel.butt@linux.dev Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan surenb@google.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/filemap.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++-------- mm/memory.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-memory-do-not-populate-page-table-entries-beyond-i_size +++ a/mm/filemap.c @@ -3681,7 +3681,8 @@ skip: static vm_fault_t filemap_map_folio_range(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio, unsigned long start, unsigned long addr, unsigned int nr_pages, - unsigned long *rss, unsigned short *mmap_miss) + unsigned long *rss, unsigned short *mmap_miss, + bool can_map_large) { unsigned int ref_from_caller = 1; vm_fault_t ret = 0; @@ -3696,7 +3697,7 @@ static vm_fault_t filemap_map_folio_rang * The folio must not cross VMA or page table boundary. */ addr0 = addr - start * PAGE_SIZE; - if (folio_within_vma(folio, vmf->vma) && + if (can_map_large && folio_within_vma(folio, vmf->vma) && (addr0 & PMD_MASK) == ((addr0 + folio_size(folio) - 1) & PMD_MASK)) { vmf->pte -= start; page -= start; @@ -3811,13 +3812,27 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_f unsigned long rss = 0; unsigned int nr_pages = 0, folio_type; unsigned short mmap_miss = 0, mmap_miss_saved; + bool can_map_large;
rcu_read_lock(); folio = next_uptodate_folio(&xas, mapping, end_pgoff); if (!folio) goto out;
- if (filemap_map_pmd(vmf, folio, start_pgoff)) { + file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1; + end_pgoff = min(end_pgoff, file_end); + + /* + * Do not allow to map with PTEs beyond i_size and with PMD + * across i_size to preserve SIGBUS semantics. + * + * Make an exception for shmem/tmpfs that for long time + * intentionally mapped with PMDs across i_size. + */ + can_map_large = shmem_mapping(mapping) || + file_end >= folio_next_index(folio); + + if (can_map_large && filemap_map_pmd(vmf, folio, start_pgoff)) { ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE; goto out; } @@ -3830,10 +3845,6 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_f goto out; }
- file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1; - if (end_pgoff > file_end) - end_pgoff = file_end; - folio_type = mm_counter_file(folio); do { unsigned long end; @@ -3850,7 +3861,8 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_f else ret |= filemap_map_folio_range(vmf, folio, xas.xa_index - folio->index, addr, - nr_pages, &rss, &mmap_miss); + nr_pages, &rss, &mmap_miss, + can_map_large);
folio_unlock(folio); } while ((folio = next_uptodate_folio(&xas, mapping, end_pgoff)) != NULL); --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-memory-do-not-populate-page-table-entries-beyond-i_size +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ #include <linux/gfp.h> #include <linux/migrate.h> #include <linux/string.h> +#include <linux/shmem_fs.h> #include <linux/memory-tiers.h> #include <linux/debugfs.h> #include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h> @@ -5501,8 +5502,25 @@ fallback: return ret; }
+ if (!needs_fallback && vma->vm_file) { + struct address_space *mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping; + pgoff_t file_end; + + file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE); + + /* + * Do not allow to map with PTEs beyond i_size and with PMD + * across i_size to preserve SIGBUS semantics. + * + * Make an exception for shmem/tmpfs that for long time + * intentionally mapped with PMDs across i_size. + */ + needs_fallback = !shmem_mapping(mapping) && + file_end < folio_next_index(folio); + } + if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd)) { - if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) { + if (!needs_fallback && folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) { ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, folio, page); if (ret != VM_FAULT_FALLBACK) return ret; _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kas@kernel.org are
mm-memory-do-not-populate-page-table-entries-beyond-i_size.patch mm-truncate-unmap-large-folio-on-split-failure.patch