[SRU][N:gke][PATCH 4/5] mm/gup: handle NULL pages in unpin_user_pages()

Tim Whisonant tim.whisonant at canonical.com
Fri Oct 3 22:21:41 UTC 2025


From: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2126453

The recent addition of "pofs" (pages or folios) handling to gup has a
flaw: it assumes that unpin_user_pages() handles NULL pages in the pages**
array.  That's not the case, as I discovered when I ran on a new
configuration on my test machine.

Fix this by skipping NULL pages in unpin_user_pages(), just like
unpin_folios() already does.

Details: when booting on x86 with "numa=fake=2 movablecore=4G" on Linux
6.12, and running this:

    tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm

...I get the following crash:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
RIP: 0010:sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x3a/0x2d0
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? __die_body+0x66/0xb0
 ? page_fault_oops+0x30c/0x3b0
 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x6c3/0x720
 ? irqentry_enter+0x34/0x60
 ? exc_page_fault+0x68/0x100
 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
 ? sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x3a/0x2d0
 unpin_user_pages+0x24/0xe0
 check_and_migrate_movable_pages_or_folios+0x455/0x4b0
 __gup_longterm_locked+0x3bf/0x820
 ? mmap_read_lock_killable+0x12/0x50
 ? __pfx_mmap_read_lock_killable+0x10/0x10
 pin_user_pages+0x66/0xa0
 gup_test_ioctl+0x358/0xb20
 __se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0
 do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241121034933.77502-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Fixes: 94efde1d1539 ("mm/gup: avoid an unnecessary allocation call for FOLL_LONGTERM cases")
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador at suse.de>
Cc: Vivek Kasireddy <vivek.kasireddy at intel.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx at redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dongwon Kim <dongwon.kim at intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>
Cc: Junxiao Chang <junxiao.chang at intel.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit a1268be280d8e484ab3606d7476edd0f14bb9961)
Signed-off-by: Tim Whisonant <tim.whisonant at canonical.com>
---
 mm/gup.c | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 4cd50405867cf..fe4b7b211d9b9 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -50,7 +50,12 @@ static inline void sanity_check_pinned_pages(struct page **pages,
 	 */
 	for (; npages; npages--, pages++) {
 		struct page *page = *pages;
-		struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);
+		struct folio *folio;
+
+		if (!page)
+			continue;
+
+		folio = page_folio(page);
 
 		if (is_zero_page(page) ||
 		    !folio_test_anon(folio))
@@ -394,6 +399,10 @@ void unpin_user_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages)
 
 	sanity_check_pinned_pages(pages, npages);
 	for (i = 0; i < npages; i += nr) {
+		if (!pages[i]) {
+			nr = 1;
+			continue;
+		}
 		folio = gup_folio_next(pages, npages, i, &nr);
 		gup_put_folio(folio, nr, FOLL_PIN);
 	}
-- 
2.43.0




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