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mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage

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PATCH v3 1/1 mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage

From: Lance Yang <[email protected]>

When splitting an mTHP and replacing a zero-filled subpage with the shared zeropage, try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage() currently drops several important PTE bits.

For userspace tools like CRIU, which rely on the soft-dirty mechanism for incremental snapshots, losing the soft-dirty bit means modified pages are missed, leading to inconsistent memory state after restore.

As pointed out by David, the more critical uffd-wp bit is also dropped. This breaks the userfaultfd write-protection mechanism, causing writes to be silently missed by monitoring applications, which can lead to data corruption.

Preserve both the soft-dirty and uffd-wp bits from the old PTE when creating the new zeropage mapping to ensure they are correctly tracked.

Fixes b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp")

---
v2 -> v3:
- ptep_get() gets called only once per iteration (per Dev)
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/

v1 -> v2:
- Avoid calling ptep_get() multiple times (per Dev)
- Double-check the uffd-wp bit (per David)
- Collect Acked-by from David - thanks!
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/

 mm/migrate.c | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
mm/migrate.c +10 -4
index ce83c2c3c287..bafd8cb3bebe 100644
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list)
 
 static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
 					  struct folio *folio,
+					  pte_t old_pte,
 					  unsigned long idx)
 {
 	struct page *page = folio_page(folio, idx);
@@ -306,7 +307,7 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
 		return false;
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pte_present(ptep_get(pvmw->pte)), page);
+	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pte_present(old_pte), page);
 
 	if (folio_test_mlocked(folio) || (pvmw->vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) ||
 	    mm_forbids_zeropage(pvmw->vma->vm_mm))
@@ -322,6 +323,12 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
 
 	newpte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(pvmw->address),
 					pvmw->vma->vm_page_prot));
+
+	if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(old_pte))
+		newpte = pte_mksoft_dirty(newpte);
+	if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(old_pte))
+		newpte = pte_mkuffd_wp(newpte);
+
 	set_pte_at(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, pvmw->address, pvmw->pte, newpte);
 
 	dec_mm_counter(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, mm_counter(folio));
@@ -344,7 +351,7 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio *folio,
 
 	while (page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw)) {
 		rmap_t rmap_flags = RMAP_NONE;
-		pte_t old_pte;
+		pte_t old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
 		pte_t pte;
 		swp_entry_t entry;
 		struct page *new;
@@ -365,12 +372,11 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio *folio,
 		}
 #endif
 		if (rmap_walk_arg->map_unused_to_zeropage &&
-		    try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(&pvmw, folio, idx))
+		    try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(&pvmw, folio, old_pte, idx))
 			continue;
 
 		folio_get(folio);
 		pte = mk_pte(new, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot));
-		old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
 
 		entry = pte_to_swp_entry(old_pte);
 		if (!is_migration_entry_young(entry))
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#1 lore raw
Quoted 43 lines · Lance Yang

From: Lance Yang <[email protected]>

When splitting an mTHP and replacing a zero-filled subpage with the shared zeropage, try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage() currently drops several important PTE bits.

For userspace tools like CRIU, which rely on the soft-dirty mechanism for incremental snapshots, losing the soft-dirty bit means modified pages are missed, leading to inconsistent memory state after restore.

As pointed out by David, the more critical uffd-wp bit is also dropped. This breaks the userfaultfd write-protection mechanism, causing writes to be silently missed by monitoring applications, which can lead to data corruption.

Preserve both the soft-dirty and uffd-wp bits from the old PTE when creating the new zeropage mapping to ensure they are correctly tracked.

Fixes b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp")

---
v2 -> v3:
- ptep_get() gets called only once per iteration (per Dev)
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/

v1 -> v2:
- Avoid calling ptep_get() multiple times (per Dev)
- Double-check the uffd-wp bit (per David)
- Collect Acked-by from David - thanks!
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/

  mm/migrate.c | 14 ++++++++++----
  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
mm/migrate.c +0 -0
index ce83c2c3c287..bafd8cb3bebe 100644

mm/migrate.c bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list) · line 301

Quoted 5 lines
mm/migrate.c +1 -0
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list)
 
  static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
  					  struct folio *folio,
+					  pte_t old_pte,
  					  unsigned long idx)

Nit:

static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
struct folio *folio, pte_t old_pte, unsigned long idx)

LGTM, Thanks!

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Cheers

David / dhildenb
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#2 lore raw
Quoted 52 lines · David Hildenbrand
Quoted 43 lines · Lance Yang

From: Lance Yang <[email protected]>

When splitting an mTHP and replacing a zero-filled subpage with the shared zeropage, try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage() currently drops several important PTE bits.

For userspace tools like CRIU, which rely on the soft-dirty mechanism for incremental snapshots, losing the soft-dirty bit means modified pages are missed, leading to inconsistent memory state after restore.

As pointed out by David, the more critical uffd-wp bit is also dropped. This breaks the userfaultfd write-protection mechanism, causing writes to be silently missed by monitoring applications, which can lead to data corruption.

Preserve both the soft-dirty and uffd-wp bits from the old PTE when creating the new zeropage mapping to ensure they are correctly tracked.

Fixes b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp")

---
v2 -> v3:
  - ptep_get() gets called only once per iteration (per Dev)
  - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250930043351.34927-1- [email protected]/

v1 -> v2:
  - Avoid calling ptep_get() multiple times (per Dev)
  - Double-check the uffd-wp bit (per David)
  - Collect Acked-by from David - thanks!
  - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250928044855.76359-1- [email protected]/

  mm/migrate.c | 14 ++++++++++----

  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
mm/migrate.c +0 -0
index ce83c2c3c287..bafd8cb3bebe 100644

mm/migrate.c bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, · line 301

Quoted 5 lines
mm/migrate.c +1 -0
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, 
 struct list_head *list)
   static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
                         struct folio *folio,
+                      pte_t old_pte,
                         unsigned long idx)

Nit:

Quoted 2 lines

static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
        struct folio *folio, pte_t old_pte, unsigned long idx)

Well, let me clean that up ;p

Quoted 2 lines

LGTM, Thanks!

Cheers!

Reviewed-by on v3 1/1
#3 lore raw
In reply to Lance Yang
Quoted 43 lines · Lance Yang

From: Lance Yang <[email protected]>

When splitting an mTHP and replacing a zero-filled subpage with the shared zeropage, try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage() currently drops several important PTE bits.

For userspace tools like CRIU, which rely on the soft-dirty mechanism for incremental snapshots, losing the soft-dirty bit means modified pages are missed, leading to inconsistent memory state after restore.

As pointed out by David, the more critical uffd-wp bit is also dropped. This breaks the userfaultfd write-protection mechanism, causing writes to be silently missed by monitoring applications, which can lead to data corruption.

Preserve both the soft-dirty and uffd-wp bits from the old PTE when creating the new zeropage mapping to ensure they are correctly tracked.

Fixes b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp")

---
v2 -> v3:
- ptep_get() gets called only once per iteration (per Dev)
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/

v1 -> v2:
- Avoid calling ptep_get() multiple times (per Dev)
- Double-check the uffd-wp bit (per David)
- Collect Acked-by from David - thanks!
- https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/

  mm/migrate.c | 14 ++++++++++----
  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
mm/migrate.c +0 -0
index ce83c2c3c287..bafd8cb3bebe 100644

mm/migrate.c bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list) · line 301

Quoted 5 lines
mm/migrate.c +1 -0
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list)
 
  static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
  					  struct folio *folio,
+					  pte_t old_pte,
  					  unsigned long idx)

Could have just added this in the same line as folio?

Quoted 37 lines
mm/migrate.c +8 -2
  {
  	struct page *page = folio_page(folio, idx);
@@ -306,7 +307,7 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
  		return false;
  	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page);
  	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pte_present(ptep_get(pvmw->pte)), page);
+	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pte_present(old_pte), page);
 
  	if (folio_test_mlocked(folio) || (pvmw->vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) ||
  	    mm_forbids_zeropage(pvmw->vma->vm_mm))
@@ -322,6 +323,12 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
 
  	newpte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(pvmw->address),
  					pvmw->vma->vm_page_prot));
+
+	if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(old_pte))
+		newpte = pte_mksoft_dirty(newpte);
+	if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(old_pte))
+		newpte = pte_mkuffd_wp(newpte);
+
  	set_pte_at(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, pvmw->address, pvmw->pte, newpte);
 
  	dec_mm_counter(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, mm_counter(folio));
@@ -344,7 +351,7 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio *folio,
 
  	while (page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw)) {
  		rmap_t rmap_flags = RMAP_NONE;
-		pte_t old_pte;
+		pte_t old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
  		pte_t pte;
  		swp_entry_t entry;
  		struct page *new;
@@ -365,12 +372,11 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio *folio,
  		}
  #endif
  		if (rmap_walk_arg->map_unused_to_zeropage &&

mm/migrate.c static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio *folio, · line 382

Quoted 10 lines
mm/migrate.c +1 -2
-		    try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(&pvmw, folio, idx))
+		    try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(&pvmw, folio, old_pte, idx))
  			continue;
 
  		folio_get(folio);
  		pte = mk_pte(new, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot));
-		old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
 
  		entry = pte_to_swp_entry(old_pte);
  		if (!is_migration_entry_young(entry))

Looks good, the special bit does not overlay on any arch with the soft-dirty bit. It shouldn't overlay with uffd-wp as well since split_huge_zero_page_pmd does the same bit preservation.

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#4 lore raw
Quoted 40 lines · Dev Jain
Quoted 38 lines · Lance Yang

From: Lance Yang <[email protected]>

When splitting an mTHP and replacing a zero-filled subpage with the shared zeropage, try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage() currently drops several important PTE bits.

For userspace tools like CRIU, which rely on the soft-dirty mechanism for incremental snapshots, losing the soft-dirty bit means modified pages are missed, leading to inconsistent memory state after restore.

As pointed out by David, the more critical uffd-wp bit is also dropped. This breaks the userfaultfd write-protection mechanism, causing writes to be silently missed by monitoring applications, which can lead to data corruption.

Preserve both the soft-dirty and uffd-wp bits from the old PTE when creating the new zeropage mapping to ensure they are correctly tracked.

Fixes b1f202060afe ("mm: remap unused subpages to shared zeropage when splitting isolated thp")

---
v2 -> v3:
  - ptep_get() gets called only once per iteration (per Dev)
  - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250930043351.34927-1- [email protected]/

v1 -> v2:
  - Avoid calling ptep_get() multiple times (per Dev)
  - Double-check the uffd-wp bit (per David)
  - Collect Acked-by from David - thanks!
  - https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20250928044855.76359-1- [email protected]/

  mm/migrate.c | 14 ++++++++++----

  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Quoted 12 lines

mm/migrate.c bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, · line 301

Quoted 10 lines
mm/migrate.c +1 -0
index ce83c2c3c287..bafd8cb3bebe 100644
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ bool isolate_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, 
 struct list_head *list)
   static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
                         struct folio *folio,
+                      pte_t old_pte,
                         unsigned long idx)

Could have just added this in the same line as folio?

Sure ;p

Quoted 41 lines
Quoted 41 lines
mm/migrate.c +1 -1
   {
       struct page *page = folio_page(folio, idx);
@@ -306,7 +307,7 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct 
 page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
           return false;
       VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageAnon(page), page);
       VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);
-    VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pte_present(ptep_get(pvmw->pte)), page);
+    VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pte_present(old_pte), page);

      if (folio_test_mlocked(folio) || (pvmw->vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) || mm_forbids_zeropage(pvmw->vma->vm_mm))

mm/migrate.c +7 -1
@@ -322,6 +323,12 @@ static bool try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(struct 
 page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
       newpte = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(pvmw->address),
                       pvmw->vma->vm_page_prot));
+
+    if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(old_pte))
+        newpte = pte_mksoft_dirty(newpte);
+    if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(old_pte))
+        newpte = pte_mkuffd_wp(newpte);
+
       set_pte_at(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, pvmw->address, pvmw->pte, newpte);
       dec_mm_counter(pvmw->vma->vm_mm, mm_counter(folio));
@@ -344,7 +351,7 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio *folio,
       while (page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw)) {
           rmap_t rmap_flags = RMAP_NONE;
-        pte_t old_pte;
+        pte_t old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
           pte_t pte;
           swp_entry_t entry;
           struct page *new;
@@ -365,12 +372,11 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct folio 
 *folio,
           }
   #endif

          if (rmap_walk_arg->map_unused_to_zeropage &&
-            try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(&pvmw, folio, idx)) +            try_to_map_unused_to_zeropage(&pvmw, folio, old_pte, idx)) continue;
          folio_get(folio);

Quoted 8 lines
Quoted 4 lines

          pte = mk_pte(new, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot)); -        old_pte = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
          entry = pte_to_swp_entry(old_pte);
          if (!is_migration_entry_young(entry))

Looks good, the special bit does not overlay on any arch with the soft- dirty bit. It shouldn't overlay with uffd-wp as well since split_huge_zero_page_pmd does the same bit preservation.

Yeah. Thanks for double-checking the bit overlaps!

Good to know we're on solid ground here ;)

Quoted 2 lines

Cheers!

syzbot Tested-by [email protected] on v3 1/1
#5 lore raw
In reply to Lance Yang
syzbot ci has tested the following series

syzbot ci has tested the following series

[v3] mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]
* [PATCH v3 1/1] mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage

and found the following issue:

general protection fault in remove_migration_pte

Full report is available here:
https://ci.syzbot.org/series/a2021abd-c238-431c-a92e-cc29beb53cbf

***

general protection fault in remove_migration_pte
tree:      torvalds
URL:       https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
base:      1896ce8eb6c61824f6c1125d69d8fda1f44a22f8
arch:      amd64
compiler:  Debian clang version 20.1.8 (++20250708063551+0c9f909b7976-1~exp1~20250708183702.136), Debian LLD 20.1.8
config:    https://ci.syzbot.org/builds/84a2085e-d609-43ea-8b19-f9af8ea3d54a/config
C repro:   https://ci.syzbot.org/findings/3e211477-5a8d-4d4d-935b-15076499b001/c_repro
syz repro: https://ci.syzbot.org/findings/3e211477-5a8d-4d4d-935b-15076499b001/syz_repro
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5985 Comm: syz.0.27 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ptep_get include/linux/pgtable.h:340 [inline]
RIP: 0010:remove_migration_pte+0x37f/0x2340 mm/migrate.c:361
Code: 43 20 48 89 84 24 08 01 00 00 49 8d 47 40 48 89 84 24 00 01 00 00 4c 89 64 24 50 4c 8b b4 24 70 01 00 00 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 22 3e ff ff 49 8b 06 48 89 44 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002c2f3c0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888027799080 RCX: 1ffffd40008d1006
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000387ff RDI: 0000000000038600
RBP: ffffc90002c2f5d0 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000585e30 R12: ffffea0004688008
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffea0004688000
FS:  0000555589124500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8d7e000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000300 CR3: 0000000026118000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 rmap_walk_anon+0x553/0x730 mm/rmap.c:2842
 remove_migration_ptes mm/migrate.c:478 [inline]
 migrate_folio_move mm/migrate.c:1394 [inline]
 migrate_folios_move mm/migrate.c:1725 [inline]
 migrate_pages_batch+0x200a/0x35c0 mm/migrate.c:1972
 migrate_pages_sync mm/migrate.c:2002 [inline]
 migrate_pages+0x1bcc/0x2930 mm/migrate.c:2111
 migrate_to_node mm/mempolicy.c:1244 [inline]
 do_migrate_pages+0x5ee/0x800 mm/mempolicy.c:1343
 kernel_migrate_pages mm/mempolicy.c:1858 [inline]
 __do_sys_migrate_pages mm/mempolicy.c:1876 [inline]
 __se_sys_migrate_pages+0x544/0x650 mm/mempolicy.c:1872
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f922b98ec29
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffccaf966f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000100
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f922bbd5fa0 RCX: 00007f922b98ec29
RDX: 0000200000000300 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f922ba11e41 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000200000000040 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f922bbd5fa0 R14: 00007f922bbd5fa0 R15: 0000000000000004
 </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:ptep_get include/linux/pgtable.h:340 [inline]
RIP: 0010:remove_migration_pte+0x37f/0x2340 mm/migrate.c:361
Code: 43 20 48 89 84 24 08 01 00 00 49 8d 47 40 48 89 84 24 00 01 00 00 4c 89 64 24 50 4c 8b b4 24 70 01 00 00 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 22 3e ff ff 49 8b 06 48 89 44 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002c2f3c0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888027799080 RCX: 1ffffd40008d1006
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000387ff RDI: 0000000000038600
RBP: ffffc90002c2f5d0 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000585e30 R12: ffffea0004688008
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffea0004688000
FS:  0000555589124500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8d7e000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000300 CR3: 0000000026118000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
----------------
Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	43 20 48 89          	rex.XB and %cl,-0x77(%r8)
   4:	84 24 08             	test   %ah,(%rax,%rcx,1)
   7:	01 00                	add    %eax,(%rax)
   9:	00 49 8d             	add    %cl,-0x73(%rcx)
   c:	47                   	rex.RXB
   d:	40                   	rex
   e:	48 89 84 24 00 01 00 	mov    %rax,0x100(%rsp)
  15:	00
  16:	4c 89 64 24 50       	mov    %r12,0x50(%rsp)
  1b:	4c 8b b4 24 70 01 00 	mov    0x170(%rsp),%r14
  22:	00
  23:	4c 89 f0             	mov    %r14,%rax
  26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1) <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	74 08                	je     0x39
  31:	4c 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%rdi
  34:	e8 22 3e ff ff       	call   0xffff3e5b
  39:	49 8b 06             	mov    (%r14),%rax
  3c:	48                   	rex.W
  3d:	89                   	.byte 0x89
  3e:	44                   	rex.R
  3f:	24                   	.byte 0x24

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Thanks for the report!

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syzbot ci has tested the following series

[v3] mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]
* [PATCH v3 1/1] mm/rmap: fix soft-dirty and uffd-wp bit loss when remapping zero-filled mTHP subpage to shared zeropage

and found the following issue:

general protection fault in remove_migration_pte

Full report is available here:
https://ci.syzbot.org/series/a2021abd-c238-431c-a92e-cc29beb53cbf

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general protection fault in remove_migration_pte
tree:      torvalds
URL:       https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
base:      1896ce8eb6c61824f6c1125d69d8fda1f44a22f8
arch:      amd64
compiler:  Debian clang version 20.1.8 (++20250708063551+0c9f909b7976-1~exp1~20250708183702.136), Debian LLD 20.1.8
config:    https://ci.syzbot.org/builds/84a2085e-d609-43ea-8b19-f9af8ea3d54a/config
C repro:   https://ci.syzbot.org/findings/3e211477-5a8d-4d4d-935b-15076499b001/c_repro
syz repro: https://ci.syzbot.org/findings/3e211477-5a8d-4d4d-935b-15076499b001/syz_repro
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Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]

This is a known issue that I introduced in the v3 patch. I spotted this exact NULL pointer dereference bug[1] myself and have already sent out a v5 version[2] with the fix.

The root cause is that ptep_get() is called before the !pwmw.pte check, which handles PMD-mapped THP migration entries.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]

Thanks,
Lance

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CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5985 Comm: syz.0.27 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ptep_get include/linux/pgtable.h:340 [inline]
RIP: 0010:remove_migration_pte+0x37f/0x2340 mm/migrate.c:361
Code: 43 20 48 89 84 24 08 01 00 00 49 8d 47 40 48 89 84 24 00 01 00 00 4c 89 64 24 50 4c 8b b4 24 70 01 00 00 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 22 3e ff ff 49 8b 06 48 89 44 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002c2f3c0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888027799080 RCX: 1ffffd40008d1006
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000387ff RDI: 0000000000038600
RBP: ffffc90002c2f5d0 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000585e30 R12: ffffea0004688008
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffea0004688000
FS:  0000555589124500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8d7e000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000300 CR3: 0000000026118000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  rmap_walk_anon+0x553/0x730 mm/rmap.c:2842
  remove_migration_ptes mm/migrate.c:478 [inline]
  migrate_folio_move mm/migrate.c:1394 [inline]
  migrate_folios_move mm/migrate.c:1725 [inline]
  migrate_pages_batch+0x200a/0x35c0 mm/migrate.c:1972
  migrate_pages_sync mm/migrate.c:2002 [inline]
  migrate_pages+0x1bcc/0x2930 mm/migrate.c:2111
  migrate_to_node mm/mempolicy.c:1244 [inline]
  do_migrate_pages+0x5ee/0x800 mm/mempolicy.c:1343
  kernel_migrate_pages mm/mempolicy.c:1858 [inline]
  __do_sys_migrate_pages mm/mempolicy.c:1876 [inline]
  __se_sys_migrate_pages+0x544/0x650 mm/mempolicy.c:1872
  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
  do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f922b98ec29
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffccaf966f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000100
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f922bbd5fa0 RCX: 00007f922b98ec29
RDX: 0000200000000300 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 00007f922ba11e41 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000200000000040 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f922bbd5fa0 R14: 00007f922bbd5fa0 R15: 0000000000000004
  </TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:ptep_get include/linux/pgtable.h:340 [inline]
RIP: 0010:remove_migration_pte+0x37f/0x2340 mm/migrate.c:361
Code: 43 20 48 89 84 24 08 01 00 00 49 8d 47 40 48 89 84 24 00 01 00 00 4c 89 64 24 50 4c 8b b4 24 70 01 00 00 4c 89 f0 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89 f7 e8 22 3e ff ff 49 8b 06 48 89 44 24
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002c2f3c0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888027799080 RCX: 1ffffd40008d1006
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000387ff RDI: 0000000000038600
RBP: ffffc90002c2f5d0 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff52000585e30 R12: ffffea0004688008
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffea0004688000
FS:  0000555589124500(0000) GS:ffff8880b8d7e000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000000300 CR3: 0000000026118000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
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Code disassembly (best guess):
    0:	43 20 48 89          	rex.XB and %cl,-0x77(%r8)
    4:	84 24 08             	test   %ah,(%rax,%rcx,1)
    7:	01 00                	add    %eax,(%rax)
    9:	00 49 8d             	add    %cl,-0x73(%rcx)
    c:	47                   	rex.RXB
    d:	40                   	rex
    e:	48 89 84 24 00 01 00 	mov    %rax,0x100(%rsp)
   15:	00
   16:	4c 89 64 24 50       	mov    %r12,0x50(%rsp)
   1b:	4c 8b b4 24 70 01 00 	mov    0x170(%rsp),%r14
   22:	00
   23:	4c 89 f0             	mov    %r14,%rax
   26:	48 c1 e8 03          	shr    $0x3,%rax
* 2a:	42 80 3c 28 00       	cmpb   $0x0,(%rax,%r13,1) <-- trapping instruction
   2f:	74 08                	je     0x39
   31:	4c 89 f7             	mov    %r14,%rdi
   34:	e8 22 3e ff ff       	call   0xffff3e5b
   39:	49 8b 06             	mov    (%r14),%rax
   3c:	48                   	rex.W
   3d:	89                   	.byte 0x89
   3e:	44                   	rex.R
   3f:	24                   	.byte 0x24

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