From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:18:55 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: mm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE
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mm/mm_init: fix uninitialized struct pages for ZONE_DEVICE

If DAX memory is hotplugged into an unoccupied subsection of an early
section, section_activate() reuses the unoptimized boot memmap.  However,
compound_nr_pages() still assumes that vmemmap optimization is in effect
and initializes only the reduced number of struct pages.  As a result, the
remaining tail struct pages are left uninitialized, which can later lead
to unexpected behavior or crashes.

Fix this by treating early sections as unoptimized when calculating how
many struct pages to initialize.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260428081855.1249045-7-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Fixes: 6fd3620b3428 ("mm/page_alloc: reuse tail struct pages for compound devmaps")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index cfc76953e249..bd466a3c10c8 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -1055,10 +1055,17 @@ static void __ref __init_zone_device_page(struct page *page, unsigned long pfn,
  * of how the sparse_vmemmap internals handle compound pages in the lack
  * of an altmap. See vmemmap_populate_compound_pages().
  */
-static inline unsigned long compound_nr_pages(struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
+static inline unsigned long compound_nr_pages(unsigned long pfn,
+					      struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
 					      struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
 {
-	if (!vmemmap_can_optimize(altmap, pgmap))
+	/*
+	 * If DAX memory is hot-plugged into an unoccupied subsection
+	 * of an early section, the unoptimized boot memmap is reused.
+	 * See section_activate().
+	 */
+	if (early_section(__pfn_to_section(pfn)) ||
+	    !vmemmap_can_optimize(altmap, pgmap))
 		return pgmap_vmemmap_nr(pgmap);
 
 	return VMEMMAP_RESERVE_NR * (PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page));
@@ -1128,7 +1135,7 @@ void __ref memmap_init_zone_device(struct zone *zone,
 			continue;
 
 		memmap_init_compound(page, pfn, zone_idx, nid, pgmap,
-				     compound_nr_pages(altmap, pgmap));
+				     compound_nr_pages(pfn, altmap, pgmap));
 	}
 
 	pageblock_migratetype_init_range(start_pfn, nr_pages, MIGRATE_MOVABLE);