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huge_mm.h: disallow is_huge_zero_folio(NULL)
authorMax Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:48:20 +0000 (10:48 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:25:26 +0000 (17:25 -0700)
commit2e308199b0e759abb51f7862f77a9bb8a0e39aa0
treee715cd26a82810f582fcf4ecdb65ed8ec6757f28
parented7de9af1a010c4eb5c1a0aab76aa0983f4fd3cc
huge_mm.h: disallow is_huge_zero_folio(NULL)

Calling is_huge_zero_folio(NULL) should not be legal - it makes no sense,
and a different (theoretical) implementation may dereference the pointer.
But currently, lacking any explicit documentation, this call is possible.

But if somebody really passes NULL, the function should not return true -
this isn't the huge zero folio after all!  However, if the
`huge_zero_folio` hasn't been allocated yet, it's NULL, and
is_huge_zero_folio(NULL) just happens to return true, which is a lie.

This weird side effect prevented me from reproducing a kernel crash that
occurred when the elements of a folio_batch were NULL - since
folios_put_refs() skips huge zero folios, this sometimes causes a crash,
but sometimes does not.  For debugging, it is better to reveal such bugs
reliably and not hide them behind random preconditions like "has the huge
zero folio already been created?"

To improve detection of such bugs, David Hildenbrand suggested adding a
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250828084820.570118-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/huge_mm.h