[PATCH] drm/shmem_helper: Check VMA boundaries for PMD mappings

From: Christian A. Ehrhardt

Date: Mon Jun 22 2026 - 18:05:21 EST


In the ->huge_fault handler do not install a PMD huge page
mapping if the huge page exceeds the boundaries of the VMA.

All other ->huge_fault handlers have similar checks and the
resulting mapping will trigger a VM_BUG_ON_VMA() if it ever
reaches copy_pmd_range().

Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: fc3bbf34e643 ("drm/shmem-helper: Fix huge page mapping in fault handler")
Signed-off-by: Christian A. Ehrhardt <lk@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
index c989459eb215..00807039f8d7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gem_shmem_helper.c
@@ -597,9 +597,13 @@ static vm_fault_t try_insert_pfn(struct vm_fault *vmf, unsigned int order,
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_PFNMAP
} else if (order == PMD_ORDER) {
unsigned long paddr = pfn << PAGE_SHIFT;
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
+ unsigned long start = ALIGN_DOWN(vmf->address, PMD_SIZE);
+ unsigned long end = start + PMD_SIZE;
+ bool in_range = vma->vm_start <= start && end <= vma->vm_end;
bool aligned = (vmf->address & ~PMD_MASK) == (paddr & ~PMD_MASK);

- if (aligned &&
+ if (aligned && in_range &&
folio_test_pmd_mappable(page_folio(pfn_to_page(pfn)))) {
vm_fault_t ret;

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2.43.0