Re: [PATCH] mm: fix address wraparound when scanning large folio PTEs

["David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>]

On 10/14/26 08:02, Baolin Wang wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/13/26 8:30 PM, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>> numa_rebuild_large_mapping() and do_swap_page() can be tricked into
>> generating an address wraparound, crashing the kernel. All that's required
>> is to map a tail page of a large folio close enough to the start/end of
>> the address space to e.g., make
>>
>>     unsigned long addr_start = addr - (nr << PAGE_SHIFT);
>>
>> to wrap around.
>>
>> Let's fix it by providing a better helper, folio_pte_scan_range(), that
>> takes care of staying within VMA and page table boundaries while
>> handling possible wraparounds.
>>
>> Reported-by: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>
>> Fixes: d2136d749d76 ("mm: support multi-size THP numa balancing")
>> Fixes: 508758960b8d ("mm: swap: entirely map large folios found in swapcache")
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
>> ---
> 
> Thanks for the fix.
> 
>>   mm/memory.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>>   1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
>> index 1f5d5f7d39cd2..a3823010aa981 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory.c
>> @@ -4933,6 +4933,27 @@ static void check_swap_exclusive(struct folio *folio,
>> swp_entry_t entry,
>>       } while (--nr_pages);
>>   }
>>   +/*
>> + * Get the address range in which a folio might be mapped, assuming its pages
>> + * are mapped consecutively and the folio page at the given idx is mapped at
>> + * the given address.
>> + */
>> +static void folio_pte_scan_range(const struct folio *folio,
>> +        const struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
>> +        unsigned long idx, unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end)
>> +{
>> +    /* Stay within the page table and VMA boundaries. */
>> +    const unsigned long pmd_start = addr & PMD_MASK;
>> +    const unsigned long pmd_end = pmd_start + PMD_SIZE;
>> +    const unsigned long lower = max(pmd_start, vma->vm_start);
>> +    const unsigned long upper = min(pmd_end - 1, vma->vm_end - 1) + 1;
> 
> I also agree with Barry and Lorenzo's suggestion to use the more readable
> pmd_addr_end() helper. 

I had that, then I found that for folded page tables it does something rather
odd, which made me assume "this is not better at all".

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Cheers,

David