The patch titled Subject: mm: userfaultfd: fix UFFDIO_CONTINUE on fallocated shmem pages has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-userfaultfd-fix-uffdio_continue-on-fallocated-shmem-pages.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-userfaultfd-fix-uffdio_continue-on-fallocated-shmem-pages.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: userfaultfd: fix UFFDIO_CONTINUE on fallocated shmem pages Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 13:57:41 -0700 When fallocate() is used on a shmem file, the pages we allocate can end up with !PageUptodate. Since UFFDIO_CONTINUE tries to find the existing page the user wants to map with SGP_READ, we would fail to find such a page, since shmem_getpage_gfp returns with a "NULL" pagep for SGP_READ if it discovers !PageUptodate. As a result, UFFDIO_CONTINUE returns -EFAULT, as it would do if the page wasn't found in the page cache at all. This isn't the intended behavior. UFFDIO_CONTINUE is just trying to find if a page exists, and doesn't care whether it still needs to be cleared or not. So, instead of SGP_READ, pass in SGP_NOALLOC. This is the same, except for one critical difference: in the !PageUptodate case, SGP_NOALLOC will clear the page and then return it. With this change, UFFDIO_CONTINUE works properly (succeeds) on a shmem file which has been fallocated, but otherwise not modified. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220603205741.12888-1-axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 153132571f02 ("userfaultfd/shmem: support UFFDIO_CONTINUE for shmem") Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/userfaultfd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/userfaultfd.c~mm-userfaultfd-fix-uffdio_continue-on-fallocated-shmem-pages +++ a/mm/userfaultfd.c @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static int mcontinue_atomic_pte(struct m struct page *page; int ret; - ret = shmem_getpage(inode, pgoff, &page, SGP_READ); + ret = shmem_getpage(inode, pgoff, &page, SGP_NOALLOC); if (ret) goto out; if (!page) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-userfaultfd-fix-uffdio_continue-on-fallocated-shmem-pages.patch