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When both THP and MTE are enabled, splitting a THP and replacing its
zero-filled subpages with the shared zeropage can cause MTE tag mismatch
faults in userspace.
Remapping zero-filled subpages to the shared zeropage is unsafe, as the
zeropage has a fixed tag of zero, which may not match the tag expected by
the userspace pointer.
KSM already avoids this problem by using memcmp_pages(), which on arm64
intentionally reports MTE-tagged pages as non-identical to prevent unsafe
merging.
As suggested by David[1], this patch adopts the same pattern, replacing the
memchr_inv() byte-level check with a call to pages_identical(). This
leverages existing architecture-specific logic to determine if a page is
truly identical to the shared zeropage.
Having both the THP shrinker and KSM rely on pages_identical() makes the
design more future-proof, IMO. Instead of handling quirks in generic code,
we just let the architecture decide what makes two pages identical.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ca2106a3-4bb2-4457-81af-301fd99fbef4@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250922021458.68123-1-lance.yang@linux.dev
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| crypto | ||
| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| io_uring | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| rust | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .clippy.toml | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .editorconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| .pylintrc | ||
| .rustfmt.toml | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
Linux kernel
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