[PATCH] mm: fix address wraparound when scanning large folio PTEs

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Tue Oct 13 2026 - 09:26:21 EST


numa_rebuild_large_mapping() and do_swap_page() can be tricked into
generating an address wraparound, crashing the kernel. All that's required
is to map a tail page of a large folio close enough to the start/end of
the address space to e.g., make

unsigned long addr_start = addr - (nr << PAGE_SHIFT);

to wrap around.

Let's fix it by providing a better helper, folio_pte_scan_range(), that
takes care of staying within VMA and page table boundaries while
handling possible wraparounds.

Reported-by: Kyle Zeng <kylebot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: d2136d749d76 ("mm: support multi-size THP numa balancing")
Fixes: 508758960b8d ("mm: swap: entirely map large folios found in swapcache")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 1f5d5f7d39cd2..a3823010aa981 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4933,6 +4933,27 @@ static void check_swap_exclusive(struct folio *folio, swp_entry_t entry,
} while (--nr_pages);
}

+/*
+ * Get the address range in which a folio might be mapped, assuming its pages
+ * are mapped consecutively and the folio page at the given idx is mapped at
+ * the given address.
+ */
+static void folio_pte_scan_range(const struct folio *folio,
+ const struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+ unsigned long idx, unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end)
+{
+ /* Stay within the page table and VMA boundaries. */
+ const unsigned long pmd_start = addr & PMD_MASK;
+ const unsigned long pmd_end = pmd_start + PMD_SIZE;
+ const unsigned long lower = max(pmd_start, vma->vm_start);
+ const unsigned long upper = min(pmd_end - 1, vma->vm_end - 1) + 1;
+ const unsigned long offset = idx << PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ /* Avoid any address wraparounds. */
+ *start = addr - min(addr - lower, offset);
+ *end = addr + min(upper - addr, folio_size(folio) - offset);
+}
+
/*
* We enter with either the VMA lock or the mmap_lock held (see
* FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK), and pte mapped but not yet locked.
@@ -5121,16 +5142,15 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
address = vmf->address;
ptep = vmf->pte;
if (folio_test_large(folio) && folio_test_swapcache(folio)) {
- int nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
- unsigned long idx = folio_page_idx(folio, page);
- unsigned long folio_start = address - idx * PAGE_SIZE;
- unsigned long folio_end = folio_start + nr * PAGE_SIZE;
+ const int nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
+ const unsigned long idx = folio_page_idx(folio, page);
+ unsigned long folio_start, folio_end;
pte_t *folio_ptep;
pte_t folio_pte;

- if (unlikely(folio_start < max(address & PMD_MASK, vma->vm_start)))
- goto check_folio;
- if (unlikely(folio_end > pmd_addr_end(address, vma->vm_end)))
+ folio_pte_scan_range(folio, vma, address, idx, &folio_start,
+ &folio_end);
+ if (unlikely((folio_end - folio_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT != nr))
goto check_folio;

folio_ptep = vmf->pte - idx;
@@ -6280,16 +6300,11 @@ static void numa_rebuild_large_mapping(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct vm_area_stru
struct folio *folio, pte_t fault_pte,
bool ignore_writable, bool pte_write_upgrade)
{
- int nr = pte_pfn(fault_pte) - folio_pfn(folio);
+ const unsigned long idx = pte_pfn(fault_pte) - folio_pfn(folio);
unsigned long start, end, addr = vmf->address;
- unsigned long addr_start = addr - (nr << PAGE_SHIFT);
- unsigned long pt_start = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PMD_SIZE);
pte_t *start_ptep;

- /* Stay within the VMA and within the page table. */
- start = max3(addr_start, pt_start, vma->vm_start);
- end = min3(addr_start + folio_size(folio), pt_start + PMD_SIZE,
- vma->vm_end);
+ folio_pte_scan_range(folio, vma, addr, idx, &start, &end);
start_ptep = vmf->pte - ((addr - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);

/* Restore all PTEs' mapping of the large folio */

---

base-commit: 634cbf5b794b734c78631b92e381cfc85f357bbe

change-id: 20261013-folio_pte_scan_range-c6ca19cc8e9d

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Cheers,

David