FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix swap entry corruption when clearing uffd-wp" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 83abe2fd5b3aeb3123b5408a5a91709c5538fb23
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026080516-turkey-eccentric-1ef1@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 83abe2fd5b3aeb3123b5408a5a91709c5538fb23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 10:01:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix swap entry corruption when clearing uffd-wp
at fork()

copy_hugetlb_page_range() clears the uffd-wp bit of migration and hwpoison entries with huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp(), which operates on the present-PTE bit position. Swap entries keep the uffd-wp state elsewhere -- the migration branch reads and sets it with pte_swp_uffd_wp() and pte_swp_mkuffd_wp() -- and the present-PTE position falls into the swap payload. On x86-64 it lands in the inverted swap offset, where a naturally-aligned hugetlb PFN always has the affected bit set, so the clear advances the encoded PFN by two pages.

No userfaultfd needs to be involved: the clear is guarded only by the child VMA not being uffd-wp registered, so a plain fork() with an in-flight hugetlb migration entry (or a poisoned hugetlb page) corrupts the entry copied into the child. Instrumenting the clear and forking after MADV_HWPOISON on a 2MB anon hugetlb page shows:

offset before=120e00
offset after =120e02

The fallout is mostly latent: rmap walks match migration entries by folio range and remove_migration_pte() rebuilds the PTE from the folio, so a within-folio PFN skew heals once migration completes. But any path that re-encodes the corrupted offset -- e.g. hugetlb_change_protection() rewriting a writable migration entry via make_readable_migration_entry(swp_offset(entry)) -- propagates it.

Migration entries legitimately carry uffd-wp, so clear it with pte_swp_clear_uffd_wp(), matching copy_nonpresent_pte() and move_huge_pte().

A hwpoison entry, on the other hand, never carries the uffd-wp bit: it is installed fresh by make_hwpoison_entry() (try_to_unmap_one() does not preserve uffd-wp on the hwpoison path) and hugetlb_change_protection() leaves hwpoison entries untouched. There was nothing to clear there, only the corruption, so drop the clear entirely.

index 571212b80835..bca2707d02e3 100644
@@ -4917,8 +4917,12 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
 
 		softleaf = softleaf_from_pte(entry);
 		if (unlikely(softleaf_is_hwpoison(softleaf))) {
-			if (!userfaultfd_wp(dst_vma))
-				entry = huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp(entry);
+			/*
+			 * A hwpoison entry never carries the uffd-wp bit: it is
+			 * installed fresh by make_hwpoison_entry() and
+			 * hugetlb_change_protection() leaves it untouched, so
+			 * there is nothing to clear for the child.
+			 */
 			set_huge_pte_at(dst, addr, dst_pte, entry, sz);
 		} else if (unlikely(softleaf_is_migration(softleaf))) {
 			bool uffd_wp = pte_swp_uffd_wp(entry);

@@ -4936,7 +4940,7 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
 				set_huge_pte_at(src, addr, src_pte, entry, sz);
 			}
 			if (!userfaultfd_wp(dst_vma))
-				entry = huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp(entry);
+				entry = pte_swp_clear_uffd_wp(entry);
 			set_huge_pte_at(dst, addr, dst_pte, entry, sz);
 		} else if (unlikely(pte_is_marker(entry))) {
 			const pte_marker marker = copy_pte_marker(softleaf, dst_vma);

From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <[email protected]>

copy_hugetlb_page_range() clears the uffd-wp bit of migration and hwpoison entries with huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp(), which operates on the present-PTE bit position. Swap entries keep the uffd-wp state elsewhere -- the migration branch reads and sets it with pte_swp_uffd_wp() and pte_swp_mkuffd_wp() -- and the present-PTE position falls into the swap payload. On x86-64 it lands in the inverted swap offset, where a naturally-aligned hugetlb PFN always has the affected bit set, so the clear advances the encoded PFN by two pages.

No userfaultfd needs to be involved: the clear is guarded only by the child VMA not being uffd-wp registered, so a plain fork() with an in-flight hugetlb migration entry (or a poisoned hugetlb page) corrupts the entry copied into the child. Instrumenting the clear and forking after MADV_HWPOISON on a 2MB anon hugetlb page shows:

offset before=120e00
offset after =120e02

The fallout is mostly latent: rmap walks match migration entries by folio range and remove_migration_pte() rebuilds the PTE from the folio, so a within-folio PFN skew heals once migration completes. But any path that re-encodes the corrupted offset -- e.g. hugetlb_change_protection() rewriting a writable migration entry via make_readable_migration_entry(swp_offset(entry)) -- propagates it.

Migration entries legitimately carry uffd-wp, so clear it with pte_swp_clear_uffd_wp(), matching copy_nonpresent_pte() and move_huge_pte().

A hwpoison entry, on the other hand, never carries the uffd-wp bit: it is installed fresh by make_hwpoison_entry() (try_to_unmap_one() does not preserve uffd-wp on the hwpoison path) and hugetlb_change_protection() leaves hwpoison entries untouched. There was nothing to clear there, only the corruption, so drop the clear entirely.

---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

index 5da54cef2f72..a3f685670797 100644
@@ -5112,8 +5112,12 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
 			 */
 			;
 		} else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(entry))) {
-			if (!userfaultfd_wp(dst_vma))
-				entry = huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp(entry);
+			/*
+			 * A hwpoison entry never carries the uffd-wp bit: it is
+			 * installed fresh by make_hwpoison_entry() and
+			 * hugetlb_change_protection() leaves it untouched, so
+			 * there is nothing to clear for the child.
+			 */
 			set_huge_pte_at(dst, addr, dst_pte, entry, sz);
 		} else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_migration(entry))) {
 			swp_entry_t swp_entry = pte_to_swp_entry(entry);

@@ -5132,7 +5136,7 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
 				set_huge_pte_at(src, addr, src_pte, entry, sz);
 			}
 			if (!userfaultfd_wp(dst_vma))
-				entry = huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp(entry);
+				entry = pte_swp_clear_uffd_wp(entry);
 			set_huge_pte_at(dst, addr, dst_pte, entry, sz);
 		} else if (unlikely(is_pte_marker(entry))) {
 			pte_marker marker = copy_pte_marker(

2.54.0

Queued for 6.6, thanks.

Thanks,
Sasha