From: Samarth Narang <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Xu Xin <xu.xin@linux.dev>,
Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>,
Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Samarth Narang <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm/ksm: keep soft-dirty and uffd-wp when merging a page
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:29:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261018122957.526467-1-samarth.colleges@gmail.com> (raw)
replace_page() maps the KSM page with a PTE built from scratch, so the
soft-dirty and uffd bits of the PTE it replaces are lost. Due to this, a
write before the merge no longer shows as soft-dirty, the next write to
a uffd-wp page raises no write-protect fault, and because the page is
mapped with the VMA's normal permissions, on a uffd-rwp VMA the next
access raises no RWP fault.
Copy the soft-dirty and uffd bits from the original PTE to the new PTE,
and restore PAGE_NONE for RWP VMAs, as try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage()
does.
Fixes: 292924b26024 ("userfaultfd: wp: apply _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit")
Fixes: 0f8975ec4db2 ("mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking")
Fixes: 763f43865fc4 ("mm: preserve RWP marker across PTE rewrites")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Samarth Narang <samarth.colleges@gmail.com>
---
mm/ksm.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index dbfb8f98b189..b0d0555aa1b5 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
#include <linux/memory.h>
#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
#include <linux/swap.h>
+#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
#include <linux/ksm.h>
#include <linux/hashtable.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
@@ -1463,6 +1464,18 @@ static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
}
+ /*
+ * The old PTE may carry soft-dirty and uffd-wp state that tracks writes
+ * to this address. Make sure to preserve these bits in the new PTE.
+ * On a uffd-rwp VMA, also restore PAGE_NONE.
+ */
+ if (pte_soft_dirty(orig_pte))
+ newpte = pte_mksoft_dirty(newpte);
+ if (pte_uffd(orig_pte))
+ newpte = pte_mkuffd(newpte);
+ if (pte_uffd(orig_pte) && userfaultfd_rwp(vma))
+ newpte = pte_modify(newpte, PAGE_NONE);
+
flush_cache_page(vma, addr, pte_pfn(ptep_get(ptep)));
/*
* No need to notify as we are replacing a read only page with another
base-commit: 48fe11c8d0f1e4e59426a3606f20ac1130b6d8dc
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-18 12:32 UTC|newest]
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