From: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
To: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav@intel.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org,
matthew.brost@intel.com, joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com, ziy@nvidia.com,
rakie.kim@sk.com, byungchul@sk.com, gourry@gourry.net,
ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com, apopple@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] mm/migrate_device: Clear stale mapping after freeing swapcache
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:00:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ea36640-36bc-47a9-8d57-edc886e13aeb@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260727053920.3494211-1-arvind.yadav@intel.com>
On 7/27/26 3:39 PM, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> __migrate_device_pages() reads the folio mapping before calling
> folio_free_swap(). When folio_free_swap() succeeds, the folio is removed
> from the swap cache, but the saved mapping still points to swap_space.
>
> Passing the stale mapping to folio_migrate_mapping() makes it take the
> mapped-folio path after the swapcache reference has been dropped. This can
> cause an invalid swap_space lock access followed by a folio reference
> count BUG.
>
> After a successful split, nr still contains the number of pages in the
> original large folio, although each resulting page is now a separate
> order-0 folio. Reset nr to 1 so each split folio is processed separately,
> including its own swapcache removal and mapping lookup.
>
> Refresh the saved mapping after folio_free_swap() so the current folio
> state is used during migration.
>
> v2:
> - Refresh the mapping using folio_mapping(), as suggested by Zi Yan.
>
> v3:
> - Reset nr to 1 after a successful split so each resulting folio is
> processed independently, as suggested by Zi Yan.
>
> Fixes: df263d9a7dff ("mm/migrate_device: try to handle swapcache pages")
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav@intel.com>
> ---
> mm/migrate_device.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate_device.c b/mm/migrate_device.c
> index 554754eb26ff..74ac6651d4b3 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate_device.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate_device.c
> @@ -1182,6 +1182,11 @@ static void __migrate_device_pages(unsigned long *src_pfns,
> MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND);
> goto next;
> }
> + /*
> + * reset nr so that only first after-split folio
> + * is processed below
> + */
> + nr = 1;
We should also add a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_test_swapcache(folio))
> } else if ((src_pfns[i] & MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE) &&
> (dst_pfns[i] & MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND) &&
> !(src_pfns[i] & MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND)) {
> @@ -1204,6 +1209,12 @@ static void __migrate_device_pages(unsigned long *src_pfns,
> src_pfns[i] &= ~MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE;
> goto next;
> }
> +
> + /*
> + * folio_free_swap() removed the folio from the swap
> + * cache. Refresh the saved mapping before migration.
> + */
> + mapping = folio_mapping(folio);
> }
I wonder if we should change this instead to (sorry for the wrap around, I'll
need to fix my mailer)
@@ -1242,6 +1232,11 @@ static void __migrate_device_pages(unsigned long *src_pfns,
for (j = 0; j < nr && i + j < npages; j++) {
folio = page_folio(migrate_pfn_to_page(src_pfns[i+j]));
newfolio = page_folio(migrate_pfn_to_page(dst_pfns[i+j]));
+ /*
+ * folio_free_swap() removed the folio from the swap
+ * cache. Refresh the saved mapping before migration.
+ */
+ mapping = folio_mapping(folio);
> } else if (folio_is_zone_device(newfolio)) {
> /*
Thanks,
Balbir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-27 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-27 5:39 Arvind Yadav
2026-07-27 8:00 ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2026-07-27 10:58 ` Yadav, Arvind
2026-07-27 22:43 ` Andrew Morton
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