FAILED: patch "[PATCH] fs/proc/task_mmu: fix PAGEMAP_SCAN written state for PMD" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 40de8160ca7f67d14619ee0351ce5d68fc4a237a
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026080513-ambitious-sage-b240@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' 'HEAD^..'

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thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 40de8160ca7f67d14619ee0351ce5d68fc4a237a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:42:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fs/proc/task_mmu: fix PAGEMAP_SCAN written state for PMD
 holes

PAGEMAP_SCAN reports an unpopulated PTE in a uffd-wp VMA as written, but a
range with no page table at all -- a PMD hole -- is skipped:
pagemap_scan_pte_hole() tests p->cur_vma_category, which never carries
PAGE_IS_WRITTEN, so the hole is neither reported nor (under
PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING) armed.

In a uffd-wp VMA, WP_UNPOPULATED installs uffd-wp markers when protecting
a range, allocating page tables as needed, so an unpopulated slot is
treated as written -- see the pte_none() handling in
pagemap_page_category().  A missing marker therefore means the range was
zapped, e.g.  via MADV_DONTNEED.  This applies to anon and shmem VMAs.

An anonymous THP is write-protected in place as a huge PMD, so a full-PMD
MADV_DONTNEED clears it to pmd_none -- a hole with no page table -- and
pagemap_scan_pte_hole() misses it.  For a MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON mapping
MADV_DONTNEED has fill-with-zeros semantics, so a write-tracking
checkpoint/migration tool (e.g.  CRIU) treats the range as unchanged and
keeps its previous contents; after restore or live migration the process
reads stale data instead of zeroes -- data corruption.

Report a hole in a non-hugetlb uffd-wp VMA as written, matching the
pte_none handling in pagemap_page_category(); the existing
PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING path then arms it via uffd_wp_range().

hugetlb is excluded: pagemap_hugetlb_category() reports an empty hugetlb
entry (huge_pte_none) as not-written, unlike pagemap_page_category(),
which reports pte_none as written.  pagemap_scan_pte_hole() fires for a
hugetlb slot only when it has no page table; keeping that not-written
matches how an allocated-but-empty hugetlb entry reads, so the hole and
the empty-entry cases agree within the VMA.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Fixes: 2bad466cc9d9 ("mm/uffd: UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED")
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Sashiko AI review <[email protected]>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/[email protected]
Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Xu <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Zenghui Yu <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-fable-5
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index d45c729ab6bb..229d1fc3d7f1 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -3049,12 +3049,28 @@ static int pagemap_scan_pte_hole(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 {
 	struct pagemap_scan_private *p = walk->private;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
+	unsigned long categories;
 	int ret, err;
 
-	if (!vma || !pagemap_scan_is_interesting_page(p->cur_vma_category, p))
+	if (!vma)
 		return 0;
 
-	ret = pagemap_scan_output(p->cur_vma_category, p, addr, &end);
+	/*
+	 * In a uffd-wp VMA an unpopulated range is treated as written:
+	 * uffd-wp registration populates page tables and installs markers
+	 * with WP_UNPOPULATED, so a missing marker means the range was
+	 * zapped. See the pte_none() handling in pagemap_page_category().
+	 *
+	 * hugetlb differs, see pagemap_hugetlb_category().
+	 */
+	categories = p->cur_vma_category;
+	if (userfaultfd_wp(vma) && !is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
+		categories |= PAGE_IS_WRITTEN;
+
+	if (!pagemap_scan_is_interesting_page(categories, p))
+		return 0;
+
+	ret = pagemap_scan_output(categories, p, addr, &end);
 	if (addr == end)
 		return ret;