The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/memfd: fix information leak in hugetlb folios
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-memfd-fix-information-leak-in-hugetlb-folios.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406(a)gmail.com>
Subject: mm/memfd: fix information leak in hugetlb folios
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:20:34 +0530
When allocating hugetlb folios for memfd, three initialization steps are
missing:
1. Folios are not zeroed, leading to kernel memory disclosure to userspace
2. Folios are not marked uptodate before adding to page cache
3. hugetlb_fault_mutex is not taken before hugetlb_add_to_page_cache()
The memfd allocation path bypasses the normal page fault handler
(hugetlb_no_page) which would handle all of these initialization steps.
This is problematic especially for udmabuf use cases where folios are
pinned and directly accessed by userspace via DMA.
Fix by matching the initialization pattern used in hugetlb_no_page():
- Zero the folio using folio_zero_user() which is optimized for huge pages
- Mark it uptodate with folio_mark_uptodate()
- Take hugetlb_fault_mutex before adding to page cache to prevent races
The folio_zero_user() change also fixes a potential security issue where
uninitialized kernel memory could be disclosed to userspace through read()
or mmap() operations on the memfd.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251112145034.2320452-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
Fixes: 89c1905d9c14 ("mm/gup: introduce memfd_pin_folios() for pinning memfd folios")
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406(a)gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+f64019ba229e3a5c411b(a)syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251112031631.2315651-1-kartikey406@gmail.com/ [v1]
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f64019ba229e3a5c411b
Suggested-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador(a)suse.de>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david(a)redhat.com>
Tested-by: syzbot+f64019ba229e3a5c411b(a)syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador(a)suse.de>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david(a)kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd(a)google.com>
Cc: Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy(a)intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg(a)nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg(a)nvidia.com> (v2)
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch(a)lst.de> (v6)
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel(a)redhat.com>
Cc: <stable(a)vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/memfd.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/memfd.c~mm-memfd-fix-information-leak-in-hugetlb-folios
+++ a/mm/memfd.c
@@ -96,9 +96,36 @@ struct folio *memfd_alloc_folio(struct f
NULL,
gfp_mask);
if (folio) {
+ u32 hash;
+
+ /*
+ * Zero the folio to prevent information leaks to userspace.
+ * Use folio_zero_user() which is optimized for huge/gigantic
+ * pages. Pass 0 as addr_hint since this is not a faulting path
+ * and we don't have a user virtual address yet.
+ */
+ folio_zero_user(folio, 0);
+
+ /*
+ * Mark the folio uptodate before adding to page cache,
+ * as required by filemap.c and other hugetlb paths.
+ */
+ __folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
+
+ /*
+ * Serialize hugepage allocation and instantiation to prevent
+ * races with concurrent allocations, as required by all other
+ * callers of hugetlb_add_to_page_cache().
+ */
+ hash = hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash(memfd->f_mapping, idx);
+ mutex_lock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
+
err = hugetlb_add_to_page_cache(folio,
memfd->f_mapping,
idx);
+
+ mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
+
if (err) {
folio_put(folio);
goto err_unresv;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kartikey406(a)gmail.com are
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: swap: remove duplicate nr_swap_pages decrement in get_swap_page_of_type()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-swap-remove-duplicate-nr_swap_pages-decrement-in-get_swap_page_of_type.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Youngjun Park <youngjun.park(a)lge.com>
Subject: mm: swap: remove duplicate nr_swap_pages decrement in get_swap_page_of_type()
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2025 17:24:56 +0900
After commit 4f78252da887, nr_swap_pages is decremented in
swap_range_alloc(). Since cluster_alloc_swap_entry() calls
swap_range_alloc() internally, the decrement in get_swap_page_of_type()
causes double-decrementing.
As a representative userspace-visible runtime example of the impact,
/proc/meminfo reports increasingly inaccurate SwapFree values. The
discrepancy grows with each swap allocation, and during hibernation
when large amounts of memory are written to swap, the reported value
can deviate significantly from actual available swap space, misleading
users and monitoring tools.
Remove the duplicate decrement.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251102082456.79807-1-youngjun.park@lge.com
Fixes: 4f78252da887 ("mm: swap: move nr_swap_pages counter decrement from folio_alloc_swap() to swap_range_alloc()")
Signed-off-by: Youngjun Park <youngjun.park(a)lge.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl(a)kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua(a)kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kairui Song <kasong(a)tencent.com>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs(a)gmail.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe(a)redhat.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng(a)huaweicloud.com>
Cc: <stable(a)vger.kernel.org> [6.17+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-swap-remove-duplicate-nr_swap_pages-decrement-in-get_swap_page_of_type
+++ a/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -2005,10 +2005,8 @@ swp_entry_t get_swap_page_of_type(int ty
local_lock(&percpu_swap_cluster.lock);
offset = cluster_alloc_swap_entry(si, 0, 1);
local_unlock(&percpu_swap_cluster.lock);
- if (offset) {
+ if (offset)
entry = swp_entry(si->type, offset);
- atomic_long_dec(&nr_swap_pages);
- }
}
put_swap_device(si);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from youngjun.park(a)lge.com are
mm-swap-fix-wrong-plist-empty-check-in-swap_alloc_slow.patch
mm-swap-fix-memory-leak-in-setup_clusters-error-path.patch
mm-swap-use-swp_solidstate-to-determine-if-swap-is-rotational.patch
mm-swap-remove-redundant-comment-for-read_swap_cache_async.patch
mm-swap-change-swap_alloc_slow-to-void.patch
mm-swap-remove-scan_swap_map_slots-references-from-comments.patch