[PATCH v2] mm/ksm: validate KSM rmap items before hwpoison kill

From: Longlong Xia

Date: Wed Aug 05 2026 - 12:31:45 EST


From: Longlong Xia <xialonglong@xxxxxxxxxx>

collect_procs_ksm() walks the stable-node rmap list and queues an
early kill for every task whose mm appears on the anon_vma chain.

That rmap item can be stale by the time memory failure handles the
poisoned KSM page. A VMA may have been split, unmapped or remapped
after the rmap item was recorded, so matching only vma->vm_mm can send
SIGBUS with an address that no longer maps the poisoned page.

Factor page_mapped_in_vma_at_address() out of page_mapped_in_vma() so
callers that already know the virtual address can validate it directly.
This avoids deriving the address from page_pgoff(), which is invalid
for KSM pages. Use the address saved in the KSM rmap item to check that
it still belongs to the VMA and that page_vma_mapped_walk() still finds
the poisoned page before adding the task to the kill list.

Fixes: 4248d0083ec5 ("mm: ksm: support hwpoison for ksm page")
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Longlong Xia <xialonglong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/internal.h | 2 ++
mm/ksm.c | 10 +++++++---
mm/page_vma_mapped.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 181e79f1d6a2..4c9e601b2d95 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -1424,6 +1424,8 @@ void add_to_kill_ksm(struct task_struct *tsk, const struct page *p,
unsigned long ksm_addr);
unsigned long page_mapped_in_vma(const struct page *page,
struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+unsigned long page_mapped_in_vma_at_address(const struct page *page,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr);

#else
static inline int unmap_poisoned_folio(struct folio *folio, unsigned long pfn, bool must_kill)
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 7d5b76478f0b..5104e442fcb2 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -3237,13 +3237,13 @@ void collect_procs_ksm(const struct folio *folio, const struct page *page,
if (!stable_node)
return;
hlist_for_each_entry(rmap_item, &stable_node->hlist, hlist) {
+ const unsigned long addr = rmap_item->address & PAGE_MASK;
struct anon_vma *av = rmap_item->anon_vma;

anon_vma_lock_read(av);
rcu_read_lock();
for_each_process(tsk) {
struct anon_vma_chain *vmac;
- unsigned long addr;
struct task_struct *t =
task_early_kill(tsk, force_early);
if (!t)
@@ -3253,9 +3253,13 @@ void collect_procs_ksm(const struct folio *folio, const struct page *page,
{
vma = vmac->vma;
if (vma->vm_mm == t->mm) {
- addr = rmap_item->address & PAGE_MASK;
+ const unsigned long mapped_addr =
+ page_mapped_in_vma_at_address(page, vma, addr);
+
+ if (mapped_addr == -EFAULT)
+ continue;
add_to_kill_ksm(t, page, vma, to_kill,
- addr);
+ mapped_addr);
}
}
}
diff --git a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
index bac2eb5de63d..f7c5dc9248bc 100644
--- a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
+++ b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
@@ -336,6 +336,26 @@ bool page_vma_mapped_walk(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
}

#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE
+unsigned long page_mapped_in_vma_at_address(const struct page *page,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
+{
+ struct page_vma_mapped_walk pvmw = {
+ .pfn = page_to_pfn(page),
+ .nr_pages = 1,
+ .vma = vma,
+ .address = addr,
+ .flags = PVMW_SYNC,
+ };
+
+ if (addr < vma->vm_start || addr >= vma->vm_end)
+ return -EFAULT;
+ if (!page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw);
+
+ return pvmw.address;
+}
+
/**
* page_mapped_in_vma - check whether a page is really mapped in a VMA
* @page: the page to test
@@ -350,20 +370,10 @@ unsigned long page_mapped_in_vma(const struct page *page,
struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
const struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
- struct page_vma_mapped_walk pvmw = {
- .pfn = page_to_pfn(page),
- .nr_pages = 1,
- .vma = vma,
- .flags = PVMW_SYNC,
- };
+ const unsigned long addr = vma_address(vma, page_pgoff(folio, page), 1);

- pvmw.address = vma_address(vma, page_pgoff(folio, page), 1);
- if (pvmw.address == -EFAULT)
- goto out;
- if (!page_vma_mapped_walk(&pvmw))
+ if (addr == -EFAULT)
return -EFAULT;
- page_vma_mapped_walk_done(&pvmw);
-out:
- return pvmw.address;
+ return page_mapped_in_vma_at_address(page, vma, addr);
}
#endif
--
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