Commit 734eba62 authored Mar 09, 2026 by Alberto Garcia Committed by Rafael J. Wysocki Mar 23, 2026

PM: hibernate: Drain trailing zero pages on userspace restore

Commit 005e8ddd ("PM: hibernate: don't store zero pages in the
image file") added an optimization to skip zero-filled pages in the
hibernation image. On restore, zero pages are handled internally by
snapshot_write_next() in a loop that processes them without returning
to the caller.

With the userspace restore interface, writing the last non-zero page
to /dev/snapshot is followed by the SNAPSHOT_ATOMIC_RESTORE ioctl. At
this point there are no more calls to snapshot_write_next() so any
trailing zero pages are not processed, snapshot_image_loaded() fails
because handle->cur is smaller than expected, the ioctl returns -EPERM
and the image is not restored.

The in-kernel restore path is not affected by this because the loop in
load_image() in swap.c calls snapshot_write_next() until it returns 0.
It is this final call that drains any trailing zero pages.

Fixed by calling snapshot_write_next() in snapshot_write_finalize(),
giving the kernel the chance to drain any trailing zero pages.

Fixes: 005e8ddd ("PM: hibernate: don't store zero pages in the image file")
Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ef5a7c5e3e3dbd17dcb20efaa0c53a47a23498bb.1773075892.git.berto@igalia.com

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

parent c3692998

kernel/power/snapshot.c

+11 −0

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		@@ -2855,6 +2855,17 @@ int snapshot_write_finalize(struct snapshot_handle *handle)
		{
		int error;

		/*
		* Call snapshot_write_next() to drain any trailing zero pages,
		* but make sure we're in the data page region first.
		* This function can return PAGE_SIZE if the kernel was expecting
		* another copy page. Return -ENODATA in that situation.
		*/
		if (handle->cur > nr_meta_pages + 1) {
		error = snapshot_write_next(handle);
		if (error)
		return error > 0 ? -ENODATA : error;
		}
		copy_last_highmem_page();
		error = hibernate_restore_protect_page(handle->buffer);
		/* Do that only if we have loaded the image entirely */