Commit 74207de2 authored Oct 27, 2025 by Kiryl Shutsemau Committed by Andrew Morton Nov 09, 2025

mm/memory: do not populate page table entries beyond i_size

Patch series "Fix SIGBUS semantics with large folios", v3.

Accessing memory within a VMA, but beyond i_size rounded up to the next
page size, is supposed to generate SIGBUS.

Darrick reported[1] an xfstests regression in v6.18-rc1.  generic/749
failed due to missing SIGBUS.  This was caused by my recent changes that
try to fault in the whole folio where possible:

        19773df0 ("mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()")
        357b9276 ("mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround")

These changes did not consider i_size when setting up PTEs, leading to
xfstest breakage.

However, the problem has been present in the kernel for a long time -
since huge tmpfs was introduced in 2016.  The kernel happily maps
PMD-sized folios as PMD without checking i_size.  And huge=always tmpfs
allocates PMD-size folios on any writes.

I considered this corner case when I implemented a large tmpfs, and my
conclusion was that no one in their right mind should rely on receiving a
SIGBUS signal when accessing beyond i_size.  I cannot imagine how it could
be useful for the workload.

But apparently filesystem folks care a lot about preserving strict SIGBUS
semantics.

Generic/749 was introduced last year with reference to POSIX, but no real
workloads were mentioned.  It also acknowledged the tmpfs deviation from
the test case.

POSIX indeed says[3]:

        References within the address range starting at pa and
        continuing for len bytes to whole pages following the end of an
        object shall result in delivery of a SIGBUS signal.

The patchset fixes the regression introduced by recent changes as well as
more subtle SIGBUS breakage due to split failure on truncation.


This patch (of 2):

Accesses within VMA, but beyond i_size rounded up to PAGE_SIZE are
supposed to generate SIGBUS.

Recent changes attempted to fault in full folio where possible.  They did
not respect i_size, which led to populating PTEs beyond i_size and
breaking SIGBUS semantics.

Darrick reported generic/749 breakage because of this.

However, the problem existed before the recent changes.  With huge=always
tmpfs, any write to a file leads to PMD-size allocation.  Following the
fault-in of the folio will install PMD mapping regardless of i_size.

Fix filemap_map_pages() and finish_fault() to not install:
  - PTEs beyond i_size;
  - PMD mappings across i_size;

Make an exception for shmem/tmpfs that for long time intentionally
mapped with PMDs across i_size.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251027115636.82382-1-kirill@shutemov.name
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251027115636.82382-2-kirill@shutemov.name


Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Fixes: 67958013 ("xfs: Support large folios")
Reported-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

parent 895b4c0c

mm/filemap.c

+20 −8

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -3681,7 +3681,8 @@ static struct folio next_uptodate_folio(struct xa_state xas,
		static vm_fault_t filemap_map_folio_range(struct vm_fault *vmf,
		struct folio *folio, unsigned long start,
		unsigned long addr, unsigned int nr_pages,
		unsigned long rss, unsigned short mmap_miss)
		unsigned long rss, unsigned short mmap_miss,
		bool can_map_large)
		{
		unsigned int ref_from_caller = 1;
		vm_fault_t ret = 0;
		@@ -3696,7 +3697,7 @@ static vm_fault_t filemap_map_folio_range(struct vm_fault *vmf,
		* The folio must not cross VMA or page table boundary.
		*/
		addr0 = addr - start * PAGE_SIZE;
		if (folio_within_vma(folio, vmf->vma) &&
		if (can_map_large && folio_within_vma(folio, vmf->vma) &&
		(addr0 & PMD_MASK) == ((addr0 + folio_size(folio) - 1) & PMD_MASK)) {
		vmf->pte -= start;
		page -= start;
		@@ -3811,13 +3812,27 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
		unsigned long rss = 0;
		unsigned int nr_pages = 0, folio_type;
		unsigned short mmap_miss = 0, mmap_miss_saved;
		bool can_map_large;

		rcu_read_lock();
		folio = next_uptodate_folio(&xas, mapping, end_pgoff);
		if (!folio)
		goto out;

		if (filemap_map_pmd(vmf, folio, start_pgoff)) {
		file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
		end_pgoff = min(end_pgoff, file_end);

		/*
		* Do not allow to map with PTEs beyond i_size and with PMD
		* across i_size to preserve SIGBUS semantics.
		*
		* Make an exception for shmem/tmpfs that for long time
		* intentionally mapped with PMDs across i_size.
		*/
		can_map_large = shmem_mapping(mapping) \|\|
		file_end >= folio_next_index(folio);

		if (can_map_large && filemap_map_pmd(vmf, folio, start_pgoff)) {
		ret = VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;
		goto out;
		}
		@@ -3830,10 +3845,6 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
		goto out;
		}

		file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
		if (end_pgoff > file_end)
		end_pgoff = file_end;

		folio_type = mm_counter_file(folio);
		do {
		unsigned long end;
		@@ -3850,7 +3861,8 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
		else
		ret \|= filemap_map_folio_range(vmf, folio,
		xas.xa_index - folio->index, addr,
		nr_pages, &rss, &mmap_miss);
		nr_pages, &rss, &mmap_miss,
		can_map_large);

		folio_unlock(folio);
		} while ((folio = next_uptodate_folio(&xas, mapping, end_pgoff)) != NULL);

mm/memory.c

+19 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
		#include <linux/gfp.h>
		#include <linux/migrate.h>
		#include <linux/string.h>
		#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
		#include <linux/memory-tiers.h>
		#include <linux/debugfs.h>
		#include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h>
		@@ -5501,8 +5502,25 @@ vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
		return ret;
		}

		if (!needs_fallback && vma->vm_file) {
		struct address_space *mapping = vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
		pgoff_t file_end;

		file_end = DIV_ROUND_UP(i_size_read(mapping->host), PAGE_SIZE);

		/*
		* Do not allow to map with PTEs beyond i_size and with PMD
		* across i_size to preserve SIGBUS semantics.
		*
		* Make an exception for shmem/tmpfs that for long time
		* intentionally mapped with PMDs across i_size.
		*/
		needs_fallback = !shmem_mapping(mapping) &&
		file_end < folio_next_index(folio);
		}

		if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd)) {
		if (folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
		if (!needs_fallback && folio_test_pmd_mappable(folio)) {
		ret = do_set_pmd(vmf, folio, page);
		if (ret != VM_FAULT_FALLBACK)
		return ret;