linux-next: manual merge of the tip tree with the mm-hotfixes-unstable tree
From: Mark Brown
Date: Sun Jul 26 2026 - 17:34:09 EST
Hi all,
Today's linux-next merge of the tip tree got a conflict in:
arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
between commits:
7a7c16a2d2b4d ("x86/mm/pat: acquire init_mm read lock on attribute change to avoid UAF")
25a54f65ccbaf ("x86/mm/pat: allocate split page tables as kernel page tables")
from the mm-hotfixes-unstable tree and commit:
5fce67641a3ed ("x86/mm/pat: Don't gate cpa_lock on debug_pagealloc_enabled()")
from the tip tree.
I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. This
is now fixed as far as linux-next is concerned, but any non trivial
conflicts should be mentioned to your upstream maintainer when your tree
is submitted for merging. You may also want to consider cooperating
with the maintainer of the conflicting tree to minimise any particularly
complex conflicts.
diff --cc arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index 422ce7fba00c6,1f2a2ba9ce57d..0000000000000
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@@ -440,30 -441,12 +443,32 @@@ static void __cpa_collapse_large_pages(
list_for_each_entry_safe(ptdesc, tmp, &pgtables, pt_list) {
list_del(&ptdesc->pt_list);
- pagetable_free(ptdesc);
+ /*
+ * Only early alloc'd direct map should not be flagged PG_table
+ * here and those shouldn't be collapsed. However be abundantly
+ * cautious and handle the !PG_table case too.
+ */
+ if (PageTable((ptdesc_page(ptdesc))))
+ pagetable_dtor_free(ptdesc);
+ else
+ pagetable_free(ptdesc);
}
+
+ spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
}
+static void cpa_collapse_large_pages(struct cpa_data *cpa)
+{
+ /*
+ * Take the mmap write lock on init_mm to:
+ * - Avoid a use-after-free if raced by ptdump (which takes its own
+ * write lock on init_mm).
+ * - Serialise concurrent CPA walkers.
+ */
+ scoped_guard(mmap_write_lock, &init_mm)
+ __cpa_collapse_large_pages(cpa);
+}
+
static void cpa_flush(struct cpa_data *cpa, int cache)
{
unsigned int i;
@@@ -1254,22 -1237,16 +1258,20 @@@ __split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa
static int split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *kpte,
unsigned long address)
{
- struct ptdesc *ptdesc;
+ pte_t *pte;
- if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
- spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
- ptdesc = pagetable_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
+ if (cpa->init_mm_read_locked)
+ mmap_read_unlock(&init_mm);
+ pte = pte_alloc_one_kernel(&init_mm);
+ if (cpa->init_mm_read_locked)
+ mmap_read_lock(&init_mm);
- if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
- spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
+ spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
- if (!ptdesc)
+ if (!pte)
return -ENOMEM;
- if (__split_large_page(cpa, kpte, address, ptdesc))
- pagetable_free(ptdesc);
+ if (__split_large_page(cpa, kpte, address, pte))
+ pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pte);
return 0;
}
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