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mm-userfaultfd-fix-kmap_local-lifo-ordering-for-config_highpte.patch removed from -mm tree

merged mm-hotfixes-stable Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message Aug 28, 2025 Stable branch

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The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/userfaultfd: fix kmap_local LIFO ordering for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-userfaultfd-fix-kmap_local-lifo-ordering-for-config_highpte.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/userfaultfd: fix kmap_local LIFO ordering for CONFIG_HIGHPTE
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:44:31 -0400

With CONFIG_HIGHPTE on 32-bit ARM, move_pages_pte() maps PTE pages using kmap_local_page(), which requires unmapping in Last-In-First-Out order.

The current code maps dst_pte first, then src_pte, but unmaps them in the same order (dst_pte, src_pte), violating the LIFO requirement. This causes the warning in kunmap_local_indexed():

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 604 at mm/highmem.c:622 kunmap_local_indexed+0x178/0x17c
  addr \!= __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx)

Fix this by reversing the unmap order to respect LIFO ordering.

This issue follows the same pattern as similar fixes:
- commit eca6828403b8 ("crypto: skcipher - fix mismatch between mapping and unmapping order")
- commit 8cf57c6df818 ("nilfs2: eliminate staggered calls to kunmap in nilfs_rename")

Both of which addressed the same fundamental requirement that kmap_local operations must follow LIFO ordering.

---

 mm/userfaultfd.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
mm/userfaultfd.c renamed from mm/userfaultfd.c~mm-userfaultfd-fix-kmap_local-lifo-ordering-for-config_highpte +7 -2
@@ -1453,10 +1453,15 @@ out:
 		folio_unlock(src_folio);
 		folio_put(src_folio);
 	}
-	if (dst_pte)
-		pte_unmap(dst_pte);
+	/*
+	 * Unmap in reverse order (LIFO) to maintain proper kmap_local
+	 * index ordering when CONFIG_HIGHPTE is enabled. We mapped dst_pte
+	 * first, then src_pte, so we must unmap src_pte first, then dst_pte.
+	 */
 	if (src_pte)
 		pte_unmap(src_pte);
+	if (dst_pte)
+		pte_unmap(dst_pte);
 	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
 	if (si)
 		put_swap_device(si);

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