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From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	kasong@tencent.com, bhe@redhat.com, chrisl@kernel.org,
	baohua@kernel.org, nphamcs@gmail.com, shikemeng@huaweicloud.com,
	hughd@google.com, baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com,
	David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+23b25ba3c6bf971f9c57@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] mm/shmem: don't release a swapin-error marker as a swap entry
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:50:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260920155002.1030454-1-devnexen@gmail.com> (raw)

A failed shmem swapin frees the swap slot and leaves a PTE_MARKER_POISONED
entry in the page cache. On truncate or eviction shmem_free_swap() passes
that marker to swap_put_entries_direct(), which warns because it is not a
swap entry. There is nothing left to release either way.

Skip the release for non-swap entries, as every other caller already does.

Reported-by: syzbot+23b25ba3c6bf971f9c57@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=23b25ba3c6bf971f9c57
Fixes: ac2d3268284b ("mm/swapfile.c: remove the unneeded checking")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
 mm/shmem.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index b572c60f2af8..94f2c59c8cfc 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1184,6 +1184,7 @@ static long shmem_free_swap(struct address_space *mapping,
 			    pgoff_t index, pgoff_t end, void *radswap)
 {
 	XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, index);
+	const softleaf_t swp = radix_to_swp_entry(radswap);
 	unsigned int nr_pages = 0;
 	pgoff_t base;
 	void *entry;
@@ -1200,8 +1201,9 @@ static long shmem_free_swap(struct address_space *mapping,
 	}
 	xas_unlock_irq(&xas);
 
-	if (nr_pages)
-		swap_put_entries_direct(radix_to_swp_entry(radswap), nr_pages);
+	/* A swapin-error marker holds no swap slot, so just drop it. */
+	if (nr_pages && softleaf_is_swap(swp))
+		swap_put_entries_direct(swp, nr_pages);
 
 	return nr_pages;
 }
-- 
2.55.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-20 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-20 15:50 David Carlier [this message]
2026-09-20 20:04 ` Andrew Morton
2026-09-21  2:45 ` Baolin Wang
2026-09-22 21:03   ` David CARLIER
2026-09-23  1:34     ` Baolin Wang

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