[syzbot] [arm?] WARNING in copy_highpage

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Mon Oct 6 02:38:37 PDT 2025


> 
> The most reliable way would be to un-tag in case folio_mc_copy succeeded
> but __folio_migrate_mapping() failed.
> 
> I'm also wondering whether we can simply perform the copy after the
> __folio_migrate_mapping() call: the src folio is locked and unmapped,
> nobody can really modify it. Same for the dst folio.

Answering that myself: obviously we don't want to fail after migrating 
the mapping, that is more expensive to recover from.

And I think that also explains how commit 060913999d7a ("mm: migrate: 
support poisoned recover from migrate folio") likely introduced the 
issue by moving the copy.

CCing Kefeng

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Cheers

David / dhildenb




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