The patch titled Subject: mm/hugetlb: use nth_page() in place of direct struct page manipulation has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-hugetlb-use-nth_page-in-place-of-direct-struct-page-manipulation.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Zi Yan ziy@nvidia.com Subject: mm/hugetlb: use nth_page() in place of direct struct page manipulation Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:12:45 -0400
When dealing with hugetlb pages, manipulating struct page pointers directly can get to wrong struct page, since struct page is not guaranteed to be contiguous on SPARSEMEM without VMEMMAP. Use nth_page() to handle it properly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230913201248.452081-3-zi.yan@sent.com Fixes: 57a196a58421 ("hugetlb: simplify hugetlb handling in follow_page_mask") Signed-off-by: Zi Yan ziy@nvidia.com Reviewed-by: Muchun Song songmuchun@bytedance.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org Cc: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) rppt@kernel.org Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer tsbogend@alpha.franken.de Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-use-nth_page-in-place-of-direct-struct-page-manipulation +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -6474,7 +6474,7 @@ struct page *hugetlb_follow_page_mask(st } }
- page += ((address & ~huge_page_mask(h)) >> PAGE_SHIFT); + page = nth_page(page, ((address & ~huge_page_mask(h)) >> PAGE_SHIFT));
/* * Note that page may be a sub-page, and with vmemmap _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ziy@nvidia.com are
mm-cma-use-nth_page-in-place-of-direct-struct-page-manipulation.patch mm-hugetlb-use-nth_page-in-place-of-direct-struct-page-manipulation.patch mm-memory_hotplug-use-pfn-math-in-place-of-direct-struct-page-manipulation.patch fs-use-nth_page-in-place-of-direct-struct-page-manipulation.patch mips-use-nth_page-in-place-of-direct-struct-page-manipulation.patch