[PATCH v3 3/6] mm/rmap: use huge_ptep_get() in try_to_migrate_one()

Dev Jain dev.jain at arm.com
Fri Jul 3 04:41:56 PDT 2026


try_to_migrate_one() is used by folio migration to replace a present
mapping with a migration entry. For hugetlb folios, page_vma_mapped_walk()
returns the pte pointer to the hugetlb folio in pvmw.pte, but the code
reads the huge pte entry with ptep_get().

On arches which provide their own huge_ptep_get() to dereference a huge
pte pointer, accessing via ptep_get() would cause pte_pfn(), pte_present()
etc to misbehave.

It is not clear whether this has a trivially visible effect to userspace.

Use huge_ptep_get() to dereference a huge pte pointer.

Commit a98a2f0c8ce1 copied the bug from try_to_unmap_one into
try_to_migrate_one.

Fixes: a98a2f0c8ce1 ("mm/rmap: split migration into its own function")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song at linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain at arm.com>
---
 mm/rmap.c | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 03737daa348c0..ea4ad5e662f7d 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -2505,14 +2505,19 @@ static bool try_to_migrate_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		/* Unexpected PMD-mapped THP? */
 		VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!pvmw.pte, folio);
 
-		/*
-		 * Handle PFN swap PTEs, such as device-exclusive ones, that
-		 * actually map pages.
-		 */
-		pteval = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
+		address = pvmw.address;
+		if (folio_test_hugetlb(folio)) {
+			pteval = huge_ptep_get(mm, address, pvmw.pte);
+		} else {
+			pteval = ptep_get(pvmw.pte);
+		}
 		if (likely(pte_present(pteval))) {
 			pfn = pte_pfn(pteval);
 		} else {
+			/*
+			 * Handle PFN swap PTEs, such as device-exclusive ones,
+			 * that actually map pages.
+			 */
 			const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pte(pteval);
 
 			pfn = softleaf_to_pfn(entry);
@@ -2520,7 +2525,6 @@ static bool try_to_migrate_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		}
 
 		subpage = folio_page(folio, pfn - folio_pfn(folio));
-		address = pvmw.address;
 		anon_exclusive = folio_test_anon(folio) &&
 				 PageAnonExclusive(subpage);
 
-- 
2.43.0




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