From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
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"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] mm/userfaultfd: prevent poison marker loss
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:51:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261107-b4-uffd_marker_loss-v1-0-82926b22704c@kernel.org> (raw)
Now that Lorenzo's atomic vma flag fixes are in, we can also use it
for userfaultfd POISON markers.
In patch #1, we use a new VM_MAYBE_UFFD_POISON to remember that we had
POISON markers installed by uffd. We then use that to fix marker
handling during fork(), during hugetlb PMD table sharing, and during
retract_page_tables().
In patch #2, we perform a similar rework to retract_page_tables()[1] that
we did to try_collapse_pte_mapped_thp(), to make the code simpler and
less error-prone.
Once review finished, I will take this through core.git, where it
depends on a related try_collapse_pte_mapped_thp() cleanup/fix.
This is not urgent, just something that should be fixed properly.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20261031-fixes_core-v3-18-d6437171ecc3@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
---
David Hildenbrand (Arm) (2):
mm/userfaultfd: prevent poison marker loss
mm/khugepaged: check for empty PTE tables before retracting
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 1 +
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 3 +
include/linux/mm.h | 45 ++++++++-----
include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h | 7 ++-
include/trace/events/mmflags.h | 9 ++-
mm/Kconfig | 1 +
mm/khugepaged.c | 126 +++++++++++++------------------------
mm/userfaultfd.c | 3 +
tools/testing/vma/include/dup.h | 20 ++++--
9 files changed, 110 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: df3c65887715e66e2cba69116924020c37996cd8
change-id: 20261106-b4-uffd_marker_loss-f0f56ec12ce6
--
Cheers,
David
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-06 23:51 UTC|newest]
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2026-11-06 23:51 David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
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