wireguard-linux/mm, branch stable

Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-27-19-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-09-29T03:11:31Z

Pull MM fixes from Andrew Morton: - Fix module loading incorrectly returning success after alloc_tag codetag setup failed - Restore MADV_COLLAPSE semantics for shmem so forced collapse ignores the shmem THP/mTHP sysfs settings - Make alloc_tag UAPI structure padding explicit - Fix DAMON schemes unexpectedly stopping after quotas are disabled through the online parameter update interface - Fix a false SW_TAGS KASAN invalid-access report when freeing vmapped task stacks - Split the MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MEMORY POLICY AND MIGRATION MAINTAINERS entry into separate MIGRATION and NUMA PLACEMENT entries - Move memory tiering maintenance under NUMA PLACEMENT - Add Gregory Price as a NUMA PLACEMENT co-maintainer - Add Heming Zhao as an ocfs2 reviewer - Fix mmap_prepare() state being copied onto a merged VMA rather than only onto a newly allocated VMA * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-27-19-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm/vma: predicate setting mmap_prepare VMA fields on new vma alloc MAINTAINERS: add Heming Zhao as ocfs2 reviewer MAINTAINERS: make Gregory a co-maintainer of MEMORY MANAGEMENT - NUMA PLACEMENT MAINTAINERS: move memory tiering under MEMORY MANAGEMENT - NUMA PLACEMENT MAINTAINERS: split up MEMORY MANAGEMENT - MEMORY POLICY AND MIGRATION kasan: unpoison task stack below watermark only in generic mode mm/damon/core: don't skip damos_adjust_quota() while esz is not zero alloc_tag: avoid implicit padding in uapi mm: shmem: ignore sysfs configs for shmem forced collapse module: fix lost error code from codetag_load_module()

mm/vma: predicate setting mmap_prepare VMA fields on new vma alloc

2026-09-26T20:55:11Z

It only makes sense to manipulate VMA fields if a new VMA was allocated, rather than merged. VMA merging does not compare vm_ops or vm_private_data, so a merged VMA keeps its own, which is also what the legacy f_op->mmap path does since it never touches an existing VMA. Currently, these fields will get overwritten by whatever state is established in the mmap_prepare hook, and if the VMA was merged, vm_ops->mapped will not have been called, so this could destructively clear existing state without replacing it with anything valid. There is an implicit requirement that vm_private_data and vm_ops are fungible across VMAs which means that losing the 'new' state is fine. However in this case the 'old' state is being overwritten by potentially invalid 'new' state, so this must be rectified. Additionally constify have_mmap_prepare while here. All existing in-tree users either derive state from the file or are unmergeable due to VMA flags, so this has no direct impact. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260923-fix-mmap-prepare-overwrite-v1-1-3b3f1bfcdf5e@kernel.org Fixes: c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback") Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Reviewed-by: Gregory Price (Meta) Acked-by: Zi Yan Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc:

kasan: unpoison task stack below watermark only in generic mode

2026-09-26T20:55:10Z

CPU resume and BPF exception handling can discard stack frames without running their compiler-generated epilogues. Generic KASAN needs kasan_unpoison_task_stack_below() to clear the redzones left behind by those frames before the stack is reused. CONFIG_KASAN_STACK also enables this helper for SW_TAGS. The helper derives the stack base from an untagged stack pointer, so kasan_unpoison() writes KASAN_TAG_KERNEL (0xff) into the shadow for [base, watermark). For a vmapped task stack, vm_area->addr still carries the original random allocation tag. This creates a tag mismatch at the stack base even if that memory has never held an instrumented stack object. When the task exits and its stack is not cached, thread_stack_free_rcu() passes vm_area->addr to vfree(). In RCU callback context this reaches vfree_atomic(), whose llist_add() writes to the allocation base through the tagged pointer and triggers a false KASAN invalid-access report: BUG: KASAN: invalid-access in vfree_atomic+0x90/0x150 Write of size 8 at addr c2ffffc0a8f70000 by task rcuop/7/75 Pointer tag: [c2], memory tag: [ff] Call trace: __hwasan_store8_noabort+0xe8/0xf8 vfree_atomic+0x90/0x150 vfree+0x220/0x298 thread_stack_free_rcu+0x3c/0x4c rcu_do_batch+0x308/0xaf0 rcu_nocb_cb_kthread+0x33c/0x708 The deferred-free path started using the tagged vm_area->addr in commit 449e0b4ed5a1 ("fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code"). Previously it freed the untagged pointer derived from tsk->stack, so the write was never tag-checked. SW_TAGS does not need the blanket shadow reset to make subsequent stack accesses valid: untagged kernel pointers have the match-all 0xff tag, and the compiler initializes the shadow tags of instrumented stack objects before use. Return early unless CONFIG_KASAN_GENERIC is enabled. Keep the mode check in the common helper so it covers both resume and bpf_throw(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260916175113.1327454-1-ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com Fixes: 449e0b4ed5a1 ("fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code") Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reported-by: Shaobo Huang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260806123020.90869-1-huangshaobo3@xiaomi.com/ Assisted-by: LLM Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Andrey Konovalov Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Vincenzo Frascino Cc:

mm/damon/core: don't skip damos_adjust_quota() while esz is not zero

2026-09-26T20:55:10Z

DAMOS could unexpectedly stop working when a user disables quota using the online parameters commit feature. Fix it by correcting a wrong quota unset check in damos_adjust_quota(). DAMON users could disable all quotas by unsetting time and size quotas, and removing all quota goals. The intention of disabling quotas would be making DAMOS run at full speed. When such quota disabled setup is detected, damos_adjust_quota() skips all its work. The skipped works include effective size quota (damos_quota->esz) updates and charged quota amount (damos_quota->charged_sz) resets. The intention is to avoid doing unnecessary work when quotas are disabled. However, users could do the setup while effective size quota is non-zero, by doing the disabling with the online DAMON parameters commit feature. In this case, because the effective size quota exists, DAMOS will keep working with the quota until it is fully charged. After the effective quota is fully charged, the charged quota amount (damos_quota->charged_sz) cannot be reset because damos_adjust_quota() skips it. Then, DAMOS stops working until the quota is newly set or DAMON is entirely restarted. The problem happens because damos_adjust_quota() assumes the user setup for disabling quota immediately disabled it. In reality, the quota is still working until the effective size quota is also updated to zero. Other logic for catching that uses damos_quota_is_set(), which understands the fact and therefore checks the effective size quota in addition to the user setup. Fix the issue by using damos_quota_is_set() in damos_adjust_quota() to determine if its works should be skipped. The user impact is a non-deterministic and unexpected DAMOS stop behavior. That is, users would disable quotas using the online parameters commit feature, expecting DAMOS will run at full speed. However, depending on the timing, the setup can be updated while the effective size quota is non-zero. Due to the above mentioned internal mechanism, DAMOS stops working instead of running at full speed. It is unexpected behavior. It is also non-deterministic because sometimes the setup is done when the effective size quota is zero, depending on the timing. It doesn't cause critical issues like crashes or leaks. Users can simply set a reasonable quota again, or restart DAMON. But definitely it is an unexpected and non-deterministic behavior that makes it difficult to reliably use. Also investigating the root cause of the behavior would be quite difficult. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260916135020.86483-1-sj@kernel.org Fixes: da87878010e5 ("mm/damon/sysfs: support online inputs update") Signed-off-by: SJ Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Kunwu Chan Cc: # 5.19.x

mm: shmem: ignore sysfs configs for shmem forced collapse

2026-09-26T20:55:09Z

According to Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst, MADV_COLLAPSE is expected to ignore any THP or mTHP interface settings. However, after commit 26c7d8413aaf ("mm: thp: support "THPeligible" semantics for mTHP with anonymous shmem"), performing MADV_COLLAPSE on shmem will depend on /sys/.../hugepages-2048kB/shmem_enabled being set to "inherit" (although that is the default), which can cause MADV_COLLAPSE to fail unexpectedly. This could cause a userspace-visible performance regression. Fix this by returning the result of shmem_huge_global_enabled() directly when MADV_COLLAPSE is requested, allowing PMD-order collapse while ignoring shmem THP/mTHP settings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/063f655b4d6c4234f3aa27ed6ecab10283ecb880.1789351825.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: 26c7d8413aaf ("mm: thp: support "THPeligible" semantics for mTHP with anonymous shmem") Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reported-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260908125105.1510704-7-kirill@shutemov.name/ Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) Acked-by: Zi Yan Reviewed-by: Lance Yang Reviewed-by: Barry Song Acked-by: Qi Zheng Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc:

Merge tag 'fixes-2026-09-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/memblock

2026-09-24T13:16:19Z

Pull memblock fix from Mike Rapoport: "The rework of HugeTLB bootmem allocation forgot to add the name for a new RSV_HUGETLB flag for proper display in debugfs. Add the flag name now" * tag 'fixes-2026-09-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mm/memblock: mm: memblock: add missing HugeTLB flag name

Merge tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-21-17-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-09-22T17:03:33Z

Pull MM fixes from Andrew Morton: "14 hotfixes. 10 are cc:stable. 11 are for MM. Five DAMON fixes: one fixes an arm64 contpte bug where DAMON can write past the end of a page-table page, resulting in memory corruption and possible crashes. Two hugetlb fixes: one fixes an mremap() address calculation bug which can panic x86-64. There's also a missing anon_vma publication barrier which can result in hung tasks, and a writeback fix to keep long cgroup writeback drains from delaying Tasks-RCU grace periods. The remainder are smaller fixes and maintenance changes" * tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2026-09-21-17-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: MAINTAINERS: update Xu Xin's email writeback: report a Tasks-RCU quiescent state per cgwb drain pass mm/damon/core: reset invalid quota->charge_target_from MAINTAINERS: add Baoquan and Baolin as MGLRU reviewers mm/rmap: fix missing barrier between anon_vma init and vma->anon_vma publish mm/hugetlb: preserve mremap address delta when skipping page tables mm/damon/core: fix unconditionally skip last region mm/damon/vaddr: avoid hw-driven pte updates during damon_hugetlb_mkold() mm/damon/core: allow esz to be set to zero mm/damon/ops-common: use a page-aligned address in damon_ptep_mkold() ocfs2: make ocfs2_calc_xattr_init() return void mailmap: update Haowen Bai's email address selftests/cgroup: account for zswap shrinker writeback mm/hugetlb: do not dissolve gigantic pages without runtime support

writeback: report a Tasks-RCU quiescent state per cgwb drain pass

2026-09-18T15:20:15Z

cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn() drains a dying cgwb by calling cleanup_offline_cgwb() until it returns false, with a cond_resched() between passes. On a CONFIG_PREEMPTION kernel that cond_resched() does nothing: _cond_resched() is a plain "return 0", and under PREEMPT_DYNAMIC the full and lazy modes disable it. Since commit 7dadeaa6e851 ("sched: Further restrict the preemption modes") those are the only two models on the architectures with PREEMPT_LAZY support, arm64 and x86 among them, so the drain loop never reports a Tasks-RCU quiescent state. A worker draining a cgwb with millions of attached inodes runs for minutes. On a 6.18 arm64 host in lazy mode the cgwb worker drained one dying cgroup's writeback domain for over 11 minutes. A BPF program unlink (bpf_trampoline_unlink_prog -> bpf_trampoline_update -> unregister_ftrace_direct -> ftrace_shutdown -> synchronize_rcu_tasks()) waited on that grace period while holding the trampoline mutex, 42 tasks queued behind it in D state, and the hung task detector fired at 614 s and panicked the host. Any BPF or ftrace detach during a long drain inherits the drain's length. Fix this by calling cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() so we do not stall out anybody who calls sycnrhonize_rcu_tasks(). We put this in a do { } while loop because if we have many small cgroups cleanup_offline_cgwb() will return false and we will never call cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), creating the same problem. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260909-cgwb-tasks-rcu-qs-v1-1-967a7754771f@toxicpanda.com Fixes: c22d70a162d3 ("writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes") Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/9d444098-7c03-4163-af12-bd0a79a51443@paulmck-laptop/ Assisted-by: LLM Acked-by: Tejun Heo Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc:

mm/damon/core: reset invalid quota->charge_target_from

2026-09-18T15:20:14Z

DAMOS can suddenly stop working if a target process that the quota is just fully charged on is terminated. Fix by catching and processing the corner case. When DAMOS quota is fully charged, the target and the region to continue applying the action in the next round is saved in damos_quota->charge_{target,addr}_from. In the next round, DAMOS iterates targets and regions from the beginning. It skips applying the action to the regions until it visits and skips the saved target/region. Virtual address space targets become invalid if the process is terminated. Trying to apply the scheme to invalid target is just a waste of time. Hence commit 6e4930e33329 ("mm/damon/core: fix wasteful CPU calls by skipping non-existent targets") made the logic to skip invalid targets. However, it does skip before the charged target/region skipping/updating. Let's suppose the user runs DAMOS for multiple virtual address spaces with a quota. The quota exceeded in the middle of a virtual address space. And the process of the address space is terminated. Then the charge_target_from points to the invalid target. The pointer update logic is skipped for the invalid target, so the charge_target_from is never updated. DAMOS action to every target/region is skipped. From the user's perspective, it would look like suddenly DAMOS has stopped working. No critical leak or crash can happen. The user could reinstall the scheme. But this makes use of DAMOS under certain setups quite unreliable. When the invalid target is found, further check the corner case and reset the pointer. This issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260910142846.172957-1-sj@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260830064708.40CA61F000E9@smtp.kernel.org [1] Fixes: 6e4930e33329 ("mm/damon/core: fix wasteful CPU calls by skipping non-existent targets") Signed-off-by: SJ Park Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Enze Li Cc: # 7.0.x

mm/rmap: fix missing barrier between anon_vma init and vma->anon_vma publish

2026-09-18T15:20:14Z

On arm64 server, we find that a task trying to grab the anon_vma lock triggers hungtask. INFO: task main:2354726 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Tainted: G E 5.10.0-0021.aarch64 #1 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:main state:D stack: 0 pid:2354726 ppid:2350673 flags:0x00000a01 Call trace: __switch_to+0x7c/0xbc __schedule+0x3b4/0x8a0 schedule+0x50/0xe0 rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x3cc/0x6cc down_write+0x60/0x260 __anon_vma_prepare+0x6c/0x210 do_anonymous_page+0x258/0x660 handle_pte_fault+0x188/0x214 __handle_mm_fault+0x1b0/0x380 handle_mm_fault+0xf4/0x284 do_page_fault+0x19c/0x494 do_translation_fault+0xcc/0xf8 do_mem_abort+0x48/0xac el0_da+0x44/0x80 el0_sync_handler+0x88/0xb4 el0_sync+0x160/0x180 After analyzing the vmcore, we found the anon_vma->root->rwsem.count is -1. There is another anon_vma whose anon_vma->root->rwsem.count is 1, the anon_vma->root->rwsem.owner shows the lock is held, but the stack of the task shows the task doesn't hold the anon_vma lock. After adding more debugging info, we found __anon_vma_prepare() reuses anon_vma and triggers the UAF of anon_vma->root due to missing memory barrier, leading to locking and unlocking two different anon_vma->root, thus leading to an anon_vma will never be unlocked, and another anon_vma couldn't be locked anymore. This race requires two adjacent VMAs that are not merged but are anon_vma-compatible (e.g., they differ in VMA_ACCESS_FLAGS that can be changed by mprotect()). Two threads fault on each VMA concurrently, both calling __anon_vma_prepare() with only mmap_lock held for reading. THREAD A THREAD B __anon_vma_prepare __anon_vma_prepare find_mergeable_anon_vma() -> NULL anon_vma = anon_vma_alloc(); anon_vma->root = anon_vma; // the two stores may be reordered vma->anon_vma = anon_vma; // finds A's anon_vma anon_vma = find_mergeable_anon_vma(vma); anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma); // may still see the old root down_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem); anon_vma_unlock_write(anon_vma); // see the new root, never unlock old up_write(&anon_vma->root->rwsem); thread A triggers page fault and calls __anon_vma_prepare() to prepare anon_vma for the faulting vma. __anon_vma_prepare() allocates and initializes a new anon_vma, and then publishes it to the vma with a plain store. anon_vma_prepare() only requires the mmap_lock to be held for reading, so two threads can fault on adjacent VMAs at the same time. While thread A publishes a new anon_vma, thread B could find the anon_vma via find_mergeable_anon_vma() and then locks anon_vma->root->rwsem. The store to anon_vma->root in anon_vma_alloc() and the store to vma->anon_vma can be reordered. The anon_vma_lock_write() and spin_lock() only provide acquire semantics, which do not prevent prior stores from being reordered after them. The release semantics of the corresponding spin_unlock() and anon_vma_unlock_write() come too late, the store to vma->anon_vma is already published before they take effect. As a result, thread B can observe the following order: vma->anon_vma = anon_vma; anon_vma->root = anon_vma; The anon_vma slab is SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, so a newly allocated anon_vma may reuse memory from a previously freed one. The constructor (anon_vma_ctor) does not reset anon_vma->root, and __put_anon_vma() doesn't clear it either, so the old root value persists until anon_vma_alloc() overwrites it. If that store isn't visible, thread B reads a root that points to the old anon_vma and locks it. As a result, thread B can call anon_vma_lock_write() with the old root, and call anon_vma_unlock_write() with the new root, leading to an anon_vma will never be unlocked, and another anon_vma couldn't be locked anymore (its count is dropped from 0 to -1 due to wrong unlock). To fix it, change the plain store `vma->anon_vma = anon_vma` to store release, so that the fields of anon_vma are visible before anon_vma is published to vma->anon_vma. At read side, the load of anon_vma and anon_vma->root have address dependency. According to Documentation/memory-barriers.txt and some investigations, only Alpha needs address-dependency barriers and it has been handled by READ_ONCE() in reusable_anon_vma(). We reproduced this issue in v5.10 with KSM enabled. The kernel doesn't merge commit cf7e7a3503df ("mm: prevent KSM from breaking VMA merging for new VMAs"), so there are many adjacent VMAs that aren't merged but are compatible for anon_vma. Without this fix, our production environment could reproduce this issue about 2-5 times each month. After adding a smp_mb() before anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma) in __anon_vma_prepare(), which is different to this patch, this issue hasn't been reproduced for one month. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260908122924.554373-1-tujinjiang@huawei.com Fixes: 5c341ee1dfc8 ("mm: track the root (oldest) anon_vma") Signed-off-by: Jinjiang Tu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Lance Yang Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Hiroyouki Kamezawa Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Jinjiang Tu Cc: Kefeng Wang Cc: Larry Woodman Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Nanyong Sun Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: