[PATCH] mm/shmem: don't release a swapin-error marker as a swap entry

From: David Carlier

Date: Sun Sep 20 2026 - 11:50:14 EST


A failed shmem swapin frees the swap slot and leaves a PTE_MARKER_POISONED
entry in the page cache. On truncate or eviction shmem_free_swap() passes
that marker to swap_put_entries_direct(), which warns because it is not a
swap entry. There is nothing left to release either way.

Skip the release for non-swap entries, as every other caller already does.

Reported-by: syzbot+23b25ba3c6bf971f9c57@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=23b25ba3c6bf971f9c57
Fixes: ac2d3268284b ("mm/swapfile.c: remove the unneeded checking")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index b572c60f2af8..94f2c59c8cfc 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1184,6 +1184,7 @@ static long shmem_free_swap(struct address_space *mapping,
pgoff_t index, pgoff_t end, void *radswap)
{
XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, index);
+ const softleaf_t swp = radix_to_swp_entry(radswap);
unsigned int nr_pages = 0;
pgoff_t base;
void *entry;
@@ -1200,8 +1201,9 @@ static long shmem_free_swap(struct address_space *mapping,
}
xas_unlock_irq(&xas);

- if (nr_pages)
- swap_put_entries_direct(radix_to_swp_entry(radswap), nr_pages);
+ /* A swapin-error marker holds no swap slot, so just drop it. */
+ if (nr_pages && softleaf_is_swap(swp))
+ swap_put_entries_direct(swp, nr_pages);

return nr_pages;
}
--
2.55.0