Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] Fix incorrect access of hugetlb pte entries

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Tue Jul 21 2026 - 16:48:01 EST


On Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:18:38 +0100 Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:41:53 +0000, Dev Jain wrote:
> > There are various places which use ptep_get() to get the pte entry
> > corresponding to a hugetlb folio. Some arches (like s390) have special
> > handling to compute the pteval, so they provide huge_ptep_get(). Use this
> > helper consistently.
> >
> > Additionally, some code paths may provide huge_ptep_get with an unaligned
> > address. This is a problem on arm64 (I checked other arches and it looks
> > fine for them), which is fixed in patch 1. The fix is made to be
> > to huge_ptep_get() - that is wider churn and we can do that later.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Applied first patch to arm64 (for-next/fixes), thanks!
>
> [1/6] arm64: make huge_ptep_get handled unaligned addresses
> https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/9175a8c7cfe88
>
> I'm hoping Andrew can drop this from the mm tree to avoid a duplicate,
> but I didn't hear back yet and I'd like to land the fix.

I can redo Dev's series to omit [1/6]. The patches apply that way, but
there might be build-time or runtime issues running the other patches
without [1/6] present, haven't looked.

Also, review indicates that the changelog requires updating
(https://lore.kernel.org/all/2b9d60a2-8698-46b0-80ae-b8747a66a85b@xxxxxxxxxx/)
and I believe that Dev plans to do that.

IOW, it would be better to carry this in mm.git with your ack.

Do you plan to upstream this in 7.2-rcX? If so then I can hang onto
this patch until it appears in mainline. Or something.