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mm/huge_memory: initialise the tags of the huge zero folio
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:57:50 +0000 (16:57 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:19:46 +0000 (21:19 -0800)
commitadfb6609c6809e107ded9a1cd46f519c882e64ea
tree7446324b6e2e1063d02d3d2111f01c76ed2e6495
parent9a6b60cb147d53968753a34805211d2e5e08c027
mm/huge_memory: initialise the tags of the huge zero folio

On arm64 with MTE enabled, a page mapped as Normal Tagged (PROT_MTE) in
user space will need to have its allocation tags initialised.  This is
normally done in the arm64 set_pte_at() after checking the memory
attributes.  Such page is also marked with the PG_mte_tagged flag to avoid
subsequent clearing.  Since this relies on having a struct page,
pte_special() mappings are ignored.

Commit d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero
folio special") maps the huge zero folio special and the arm64
set_pmd_at() will no longer zero the tags.  There is no guarantee that the
tags are zero, especially if parts of this huge page have been previously
tagged.

It's fairly easy to detect this by regularly dropping the caches to
force the reallocation of the huge zero folio.

Allocate the huge zero folio with the __GFP_ZEROTAGS flag.  In addition,
do not warn in the arm64 __access_remote_tags() when reading tags from the
huge zero page.

I bundled the arm64 change in here as well since they are both related to
the commit mapping the huge zero folio as special.

[catalin.marinas@arm.com: handle arch mte_zero_clear_page_tags() code issuing MTE instructions]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aQi8dA_QpXM8XqrE@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251031170133.280742-1-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Fixes: d82d09e48219 ("mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special")
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Beleswar Padhi <b-padhi@ti.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Aishwarya TCV <aishwarya.tcv@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/mte.c
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
mm/huge_memory.c