[PATCH] mm/hugetlb: fix swap entry corruption when clearing uffd-wp at fork()

From: Kiryl Shutsemau

Date: Fri Jul 03 2026 - 12:22:17 EST


From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>

copy_hugetlb_page_range() clears the uffd-wp bit of hwpoison and
migration entries with huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp(), which operates on the
present-PTE bit position. Swap entries keep the uffd-wp state elsewhere
-- the same branches read and set 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 hwpoison branch 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, and
an hwpoison entry misidentifies which page is poisoned.

Use pte_swp_clear_uffd_wp(), matching copy_nonpresent_pte() and
move_huge_pte().

Reported-by: Sashiko AI review <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260703140011.99E601F000E9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: bc70fbf269fd ("mm/hugetlb: handle uffd-wp during fork()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 571212b80835..a4e6dd3a82f4 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -4918,7 +4918,7 @@ 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);
+ entry = pte_swp_clear_uffd_wp(entry);
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 +4936,7 @@ 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);

base-commit: dc59e4fea9d83f03bad6bddf3fa2e52491777482
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2.54.0