From: Lance Yang lance.yang@linux.dev

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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp") 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 Signed-off-by: Lance Yang lance.yang@linux.dev --- v4 -> v5: - Move ptep_get() call after the !pvmw.pte check, which handles PMD-mapped THP migration entries. - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250930071053.36158-1-lance.yang@linux.dev...

v3 -> v4: - Minor formatting tweak in try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage() function signature (per David and Dev) - Collect Reviewed-by from Dev - thanks! - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250930060557.85133-1-lance.yang@linux.dev...

v2 -> v3: - ptep_get() gets called only once per iteration (per Dev) - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250930043351.34927-1-lance.yang@linux.dev...

v1 -> v2: - Avoid calling ptep_get() multiple times (per Dev) - Double-check the uffd-wp bit (per David) - Collect Acked-by from David - thanks! - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250928044855.76359-1-lance.yang@linux.dev...

mm/migrate.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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))