[RFC PATCH 2/4] mm/vmalloc: undo partial mappings inside the mapping functions

From: Hao Ge

Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 02:36:19 EST


__vmap_pages_range_noflush() and friends can install some PTEs before
failing and leave them mapped, and the kernel callers do not agree on
who cleans them up. pcpu_map_pages() and kmsan_ioremap_page_range()
roll back what they mapped before the failure, while
vm_module_tags_populate() and the __GFP_NOFAIL retry loop in
__vmalloc_area_node() rely on the mapping functions cleaning up and
do not call anything like vunmap_range() themselves. When the same
range is mapped again, the attempt hits the leftovers and fails, with
a BUG() in vmap_pte_range() for huge mappings and a warning on the
small-page path.

After discussing with Suren and Ulad, we decided to put the rollback
into the entry points of the vmap API rather than into every low-level
helper. __vmap_pages_range_noflush() undoes the whole range it was
asked to map when it fails, and vmap_page_range() undoes its range
for the ioremap-style mappings.

The rollback is __vunmap_range_noflush(), it only clears the PTEs,
no TLB flush, nothing has touched these mappings.
vmap_pages_range_noflush() drops the KMSAN metadata when the data
mapping fails, and an empty range bails out with -EINVAL now, which
used to BUG_ON() on the small-page path and map nothing at all on
the huge-page one.

Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Uladyslau Rezki <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index db669103dc66..e1b376f57dd2 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -363,6 +363,9 @@ int vmap_page_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
if (!err)
err = kmsan_ioremap_page_range(addr, end, phys_addr, prot,
ioremap_max_page_shift);
+ if (err)
+ __vunmap_range_noflush(addr, end);
+
return err;
}

@@ -683,27 +686,35 @@ int __vmap_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages, unsigned int page_shift)
{
unsigned int i, nr = (end - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ unsigned long start = addr;
+ int err = 0;
+
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(addr >= end))
+ return -EINVAL;

if (WARN_ON_ONCE(page_shift < PAGE_SHIFT))
return -EINVAL;

if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC) ||
- page_shift == PAGE_SHIFT)
- return vmap_small_pages_range_noflush(addr, end, prot, pages);
-
- for (i = 0; i < nr; i += 1U << (page_shift - PAGE_SHIFT)) {
- int err;
-
- err = vmap_range_noflush(addr, addr + (1UL << page_shift),
+ page_shift == PAGE_SHIFT) {
+ err = vmap_small_pages_range_noflush(addr, end, prot, pages);
+ } else {
+ for (i = 0; i < nr; i += 1U << (page_shift - PAGE_SHIFT)) {
+ err = vmap_range_noflush(addr, addr + (1UL << page_shift),
page_to_phys(pages[i]), prot,
page_shift);
- if (err)
- return err;
+ if (err)
+ break;

- addr += 1UL << page_shift;
+ addr += 1UL << page_shift;
+ }
}

- return 0;
+ /* Undo the PTEs installed before the failure. */
+ if (err)
+ __vunmap_range_noflush(start, end);
+
+ return err;
}

int vmap_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
@@ -715,7 +726,16 @@ int vmap_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,

if (ret)
return ret;
- return __vmap_pages_range_noflush(addr, end, prot, pages, page_shift);
+
+ ret = __vmap_pages_range_noflush(addr, end, prot, pages, page_shift);
+ /*
+ * The page tables undo themselves on failure. Tear down the
+ * metadata that was fully set up before the mapping failed.
+ */
+ if (ret)
+ kmsan_vunmap_range_noflush(addr, end);
+
+ return ret;
}

static int __vmap_pages_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
--
2.25.1