[PATCH] mm/gup: check folio->mapping under folio lock in memfd_pin_folios()

From: Samiullah Khawaja

Date: Sat Oct 31 2026 - 16:36:09 EST


memfd_pin_folios() pins folios from the page cache without taking the
folio lock. So khugepaged or MADV_COLLAPSE can replace the folio after
its refcount check while memfd_pin_folios() still pins the old folio,
and the caller ends up with a folio that is no longer part of the memfd.

Lock the folio and recheck folio->mapping before pinning it, like other
page cache users do. If the folio was removed, retry the folio lookup
from the index that was removed.

Fixes: 89c1905d9c14 ("mm/gup: introduce memfd_pin_folios() for pinning memfd folios")
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CALCETrV5eqg6d9=+BQhCpRwBNe3aCQiut8vxPBs8b7PToqjaHg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/gup.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index ba4907b35232..2b405cce2ca5 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -3471,7 +3471,7 @@ long memfd_pin_folios(struct file *memfd, loff_t start, loff_t end,
{
unsigned int flags, nr_folios, nr_found;
unsigned int i, pgshift = PAGE_SHIFT;
- pgoff_t start_idx, end_idx;
+ pgoff_t start_idx, end_idx, retry_idx;
struct folio *folio = NULL;
struct folio_batch fbatch;
struct hstate *h;
@@ -3512,6 +3512,7 @@ long memfd_pin_folios(struct file *memfd, loff_t start, loff_t end,
* reason, we try to allocate them and add them to the
* page cache.
*/
+ retry_idx = start_idx;
nr_found = filemap_get_folios_contig(memfd->f_mapping,
&start_idx,
end_idx,
@@ -3524,7 +3525,21 @@ long memfd_pin_folios(struct file *memfd, loff_t start, loff_t end,
for (i = 0; i < nr_found; i++) {
folio = fbatch.folios[i];

+ /*
+ * The folio might have been removed from the
+ * page cache (e.g., truncated or collapsed)
+ * after the lookup. Recheck under the folio
+ * lock.
+ */
+ folio_lock(folio);
+ if (unlikely(folio->mapping != memfd->f_mapping)) {
+ folio_unlock(folio);
+ start_idx = retry_idx;
+ break;
+ }
+
if (try_grab_folio(folio, 1, FOLL_PIN)) {
+ folio_unlock(folio);
folio_batch_release(&fbatch);
ret = -EINVAL;
goto err;
@@ -3535,14 +3550,12 @@ long memfd_pin_folios(struct file *memfd, loff_t start, loff_t end,
* page cache that were never cleared.
*/
if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio)) {
- folio_lock(folio);
- if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio)) {
- folio_zero_range(folio, 0, folio_size(folio));
- flush_dcache_folio(folio);
- folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
- }
- folio_unlock(folio);
+ folio_zero_range(folio, 0, folio_size(folio));
+ flush_dcache_folio(folio);
+ folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
}
+ retry_idx = folio_next_index(folio);
+ folio_unlock(folio);

if (nr_folios == 0)
*offset = offset_in_folio(folio, start);

base-commit: 96995467b456942f5bf1c7f2c5c004467f9dd14e
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2.56.0.317.g454f8302e1-goog