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mm/huge_memory: preserve PG_has_hwpoisoned if a folio is split to >0 order
authorZi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:05:21 +0000 (23:05 -0400)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:19:43 +0000 (21:19 -0800)
commitfa5a061700364bc28ee1cb1095372f8033645dcb
tree5fac9bd965136e39f8aa5c06b8e5ddb004b00dd4
parentf5548c318d6520d4fa3c5ed6003eeb710763cbc5
mm/huge_memory: preserve PG_has_hwpoisoned if a folio is split to >0 order

folio split clears PG_has_hwpoisoned, but the flag should be preserved in
after-split folios containing pages with PG_hwpoisoned flag if the folio
is split to >0 order folios.  Scan all pages in a to-be-split folio to
determine which after-split folios need the flag.

An alternatives is to change PG_has_hwpoisoned to PG_maybe_hwpoisoned to
avoid the scan and set it on all after-split folios, but resulting false
positive has undesirable negative impact.  To remove false positive,
caller of folio_test_has_hwpoisoned() and folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page()
needs to do the scan.  That might be causing a hassle for current and
future callers and more costly than doing the scan in the split code.
More details are discussed in [1].

This issue can be exposed via:
1. splitting a has_hwpoisoned folio to >0 order from debugfs interface;
2. truncating part of a has_hwpoisoned folio in
   truncate_inode_partial_folio().

And later accesses to a hwpoisoned page could be possible due to the
missing has_hwpoisoned folio flag.  This will lead to MCE errors.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHbLzkoOZm0PXxE9qwtF4gKR=cpRXrSrJ9V9Pm2DJexs985q4g@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251023030521.473097-1-ziy@nvidia.com
Fixes: c010d47f107f ("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages")
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <kernel@pankajraghav.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberalin <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/huge_memory.c