Hi Milan,

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 05:01:15PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried upstream stable git and bisect, this is the conclusion:
> 
> - upstream 6.1.134 is still broken
> 
> - bisect points to this patch
> (Patch cannot be easily reverted, it need some other patches, anyway, it can 
> be used as reference what need to be backported)
> 
> 476c1dfefab8b98ae9c3e3ad283c2ac10d30c774 is the first bad commit
> commit 476c1dfefab8b98ae9c3e3ad283c2ac10d30c774
> Author: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
> Date:   Fri May 26 22:41:40 2023 +0100
> 
>     mm: Don't pin ZERO_PAGE in pin_user_pages()
> 
>     [ Upstream commit c8070b78751955e59b42457b974bea4a4fe00187 ]
> 
>     Make pin_user_pages*() leave a ZERO_PAGE unpinned if it extracts a pointer
>     to it from the page tables and make unpin_user_page*() correspondingly
>     ignore a ZERO_PAGE when unpinning.  We don't want to risk overrunning a
>     zero page's refcount as we're only allowed ~2 million pins on it -
>     something that userspace can conceivably trigger.
> 
>     Add a pair of functions to test whether a page or a folio is a ZERO_PAGE.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
>     cc: Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org>
>     cc: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com>
>     cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoa...@gmail.com>
>     cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
>     cc: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
>     cc: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
>     cc: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org>
>     cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
>     cc: Jeff Layton <jlay...@kernel.org>
>     cc: Jason Gunthorpe <j...@nvidia.com>
>     cc: Logan Gunthorpe <log...@deltatee.com>
>     cc: Hillf Danton <hdan...@sina.com>
>     cc: Christian Brauner <brau...@kernel.org>
>     cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
>     cc: linux-fsde...@vger.kernel.org
>     cc: linux-bl...@vger.kernel.org
>     cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
>     cc: linux...@kvack.org
>     Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoa...@gmail.com>
>     Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
>     Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.com>
>     Link: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230526214142.958751-2-dhowe...@redhat.com
>     Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <ax...@kernel.dk>
>     Stable-dep-of: bddf10d26e6e ("uprobes: Reject the shared zeropage in 
> uprobe_write_opcode()")
>     Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org>
> 
>  Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst |  6 ++++++
>  include/linux/mm.h                        | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  mm/gup.c                                  | 31 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> If you are going to write a mail to upstream kernel list, please cc me.

Thanks for doing that work, I will forward the bug report now upstream
(and sure will include you on CC).

Regards,
Salvatore

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