[PATCH v3 00/15] mm/shmem: various (urgent?) fixes
From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Date: Wed Oct 28 2026 - 05:56:17 EST
Hi,
see v1 for details. TL;DR various fixes.
Rebased on top of latest mm-stable. The dropped fix is now included
again :)
Thanks everyone for the fast review and tests!
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v3:
- Rebased on mm-stable
- Fixup for shmem_set_acl() no longer required
- Re-include the commit I dropped by accident
- Apply tags
- Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20261027-fixes_shmem-v2-0-86a00952acb9@xxxxxxxxxx
Changes in v2:
- Rebased on mm-stable
- Fixup shmem_set_acl() compilation issue after rebase
- Dropped: "mm/shmem: avoid moving the truncation start backwards"
- Fixed up: "mm/shmem: stop retrying folios that cannot be split"
- In "hugetlbfs: enforce F_SEAL_EXEC in setattr", check for S_ISREG
- Smaller patch description fixups
- Picked up tags
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20261026-fixes_shmem-v1-0-703206d5fa0c@xxxxxxxxxx
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Chris Mason (4):
mm/mempolicy: charge shared policy nodes
mm/shmem: honour F_SEAL_EXEC when an ACL is set
mm/shmem: stop retrying folios that cannot be split
mm/shmem: preserve data in clean folios when splitting fails
David Hildenbrand (Arm) (7):
mm/shmem: discard whole new large folios on fallocate rollback
mm/shmem: rescan after nonuniform folio splitting
mm/shmem: fix truncate hang in large swap entry
mm/shmem: preserve allocation errors when swapping in large entries
mm/shmem: fix truncate loop after boundary swapin failure
mm/shmem: fix accounting of swapin-error markers
mm/shmem: fix truncation of files containing only swapin-error markers
Eva Kurchatova (1):
hugetlbfs: enforce F_SEAL_EXEC in setattr
Josef Bacik (3):
tmpfs: keep the quota soft limits of an unused id
tmpfs: preserve explicitly disabled quota limits
mm/shmem: hold off eviction in shmem_writeout()
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 8 +++
include/linux/memfd.h | 9 +++
mm/mempolicy.c | 4 +-
mm/shmem.c | 168 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
mm/shmem_quota.c | 28 +++++----
5 files changed, 149 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 65ba8f34ec886ec72b2c07ddc8cf3d815c32869d
change-id: 20261025-fixes_shmem-2782719b130e
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Cheers,
David