From 0c800435394a172f33bf4df4a5a04e187546cc9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Mason Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:43:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] mm/shmem: preserve data in clean folios when splitting fails MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A shared writable mapping can have dirty PTEs while its shmem folio is still clean. A read fault can install a writable PTE, and a later store sets the PTE's dirty bit without marking the folio dirty. After shmem_undo_range() has handled the boundary folios, a concurrent read fault into a hole below the new EOF can allocate a large folio. For example, on a tmpfs mount with huge=always, the fault's offset must be within the file, but the allocated folio can extend beyond i_size. The final scan then finds this folio and calls truncate_inode_partial_folio() without marking it dirty. Splitting normally collects the PTE dirty bits when unmapping the folio. An extra reference, for example from vmsplice(), can make it fail before that step. The fallback unmapping on split failure excludes shmem, so the helper still sees a clean folio and drops it, losing data outside the range. CPU0: ftruncate(fd, 3M) CPU1: MAP_SHARED, tmpfs huge=always ───────────────────────────────────── ────────────────────────────────── i_size = 3M shmem_undo_range(3M, -1) first pass: hole, nothing to do boundary folio at 3M: hole, none read fault at 2M+x (below EOF) PMD folio [2M,4M), crosses EOF writable PTE, folio clean store to 2M+x PTE dirty, folio still clean vmsplice(2M+x) extra folio reference whole_folios: finds [2M,4M) folio truncate_inode_partial_folio() zero [3M,4M) folio_split() unmap_folio(): extra ref → -EAGAIN, PTE dirty bit never reaches the folio folio clean → truncate_inode_folio(whole) [2M,3M) dropped read 2M+x → refault → zeroes Mark large folios dirty before partial truncation in the final scan, as the boundary handling already does. Exclude failed-fallocate rollback, which must discard the folios it added. Fix generated by an LLM and sent by Chris Mason in private. Fixes: b9a8a4195c7d ("truncate,shmem: Handle truncates that split large folios") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chris Mason Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Zi Yan Tested-by: Gregory Price (Meta) [ david: simplify descriptions, adjust comments ] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261029-fixes_shmem-v4-8-392fc715d8f6@kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) --- mm/shmem.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index af49d6bf6382..11c3e6b1aa76 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1464,6 +1464,15 @@ static void shmem_undo_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t lstart, uoff_t lend, VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_writeback(folio), folio); + /* + * A shared mapping can have dirty PTEs while + * the folio is still clean. Mark the folio + * dirty so a failed split cannot discard data + * outside the range. + */ + if (!unfalloc && folio_test_large(folio)) + folio_mark_dirty(folio); + if (!folio_test_large(folio)) { truncate_inode_folio(mapping, folio); } else if (truncate_inode_partial_folio(folio,