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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: avoid corrupting page->mapping in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 17:59:53 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> wrote:

> On 2022/7/14 1:23, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jul 2022 21:05:42 +0800 Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In MCOPY_ATOMIC_CONTINUE case with a non-shared VMA, pages in the page
> >> cache are installed in the ptes. But hugepage_add_new_anon_rmap is called
> >> for them mistakenly because they're not vm_shared. This will corrupt the
> >> page->mapping used by page cache code.
> >
> > Well that sounds bad. And theories on why this has gone unnoticed for
> > over a year? I assume this doesn't have coverage in our selftests?
>
> As discussed in another thread, when minor fault handling is proposed, only
> VM_SHARED vma is expected to be supported

So... do we feel that this fix should be backported? And if so, is
there a suitable commit for the Fixes:?

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