mm/thp: fix MTE tag mismatch when replacing zero-filled subpages
When both THP and MTE are enabled, splitting a THP and replacing its
zero-filled subpages with the shared zeropage can cause MTE tag mismatch
faults in userspace.
Remapping zero-filled subpages to the shared zeropage is unsafe, as the
zeropage has a fixed tag of zero, which may not match the tag expected by
the userspace pointer.
KSM already avoids this problem by using memcmp_pages(), which on arm64
intentionally reports MTE-tagged pages as non-identical to prevent unsafe
merging.
As suggested by David[1], this patch adopts the same pattern, replacing the
memchr_inv() byte-level check with a call to pages_identical(). This
leverages existing architecture-specific logic to determine if a page is
truly identical to the shared zeropage.
Having both the THP shrinker and KSM rely on pages_identical() makes the
design more future-proof, IMO. Instead of handling quirks in generic code,
we just let the architecture decide what makes two pages identical.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ca2106a3-4bb2-4457-81af-301fd99fbef4@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250922021458.68123-1-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>
Reported-by: Qun-wei Lin <Qun-wei.Lin@mediatek.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/a7944523fcc3634607691c35311a5d59d1a3f8d4.camel@mediatek.com
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: andrew.yang <andrew.yang@mediatek.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Chinwen Chang <chinwen.chang@mediatek.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 9c38a95..fceaf96 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -4115,32 +4115,23 @@ static unsigned long deferred_split_count(struct shrinker *shrink,
static bool thp_underused(struct folio *folio)
{
int num_zero_pages = 0, num_filled_pages = 0;
- void *kaddr;
int i;
if (khugepaged_max_ptes_none == HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1)
return false;
for (i = 0; i < folio_nr_pages(folio); i++) {
- kaddr = kmap_local_folio(folio, i * PAGE_SIZE);
- if (!memchr_inv(kaddr, 0, PAGE_SIZE)) {
- num_zero_pages++;
- if (num_zero_pages > khugepaged_max_ptes_none) {
- kunmap_local(kaddr);
+ if (pages_identical(folio_page(folio, i), ZERO_PAGE(0))) {
+ if (++num_zero_pages > khugepaged_max_ptes_none)
return true;
- }
} else {
/*
* Another path for early exit once the number
* of non-zero filled pages exceeds threshold.
*/
- num_filled_pages++;
- if (num_filled_pages >= HPAGE_PMD_NR - khugepaged_max_ptes_none) {
- kunmap_local(kaddr);
+ if (++num_filled_pages >= HPAGE_PMD_NR - khugepaged_max_ptes_none)
return false;
- }
}
- kunmap_local(kaddr);
}
return false;
}
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 9e5ef39..2ce0e08 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -301,9 +301,7 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
unsigned long idx)
{
struct page *page = folio_page(folio, idx);
- bool contains_data;
pte_t newpte;
- void *addr;
if (PageCompound(page))
return false;
@@ -320,11 +318,7 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
* this subpage has been non present. If the subpage is only zero-filled
* then map it to the shared zeropage.
*/
- addr = kmap_local_page(page);
- contains_data = memchr_inv(addr, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
- kunmap_local(addr);
-
- if (contains_data)
+ if (!pages_identical(page, ZERO_PAGE(0)))
return false;
newpte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(pvmw->address),
