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Zi Yan 04ad9908b0 mm/page_alloc: make sure tail_page->private is zero at page free time ...

Any code using tail_page->private of a folio, a compound page or a
high-order page is supposed to reset it after use, otherwise ->private
data can leak to new page user and cause unexpected issues.  Add a
bad_page() check at page free path for it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-keep-subpage-private-zero-at-free-v3-4-7e4fe155f5b9@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

2026-08-04 19:18:33 -07:00

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