linux-kernel - [PATCH] huge_memory: return -EINVAL in folio split functions when THP is disabled

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Message-ID: <20250902084036.208921-1-kernel@pankajraghav.com>
Date: Tue,  2 Sep 2025 10:40:36 +0200
From: "Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)" <kernel@...kajraghav.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
	Dev Jain <dev.jain@....com>,
	Barry Song <baohua@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>,
	Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>,
	"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	willy@...radead.org,
	mcgrof@...nel.org,
	gost.dev@...sung.com,
	kernel@...kajraghav.com,
	Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
Subject: [PATCH] huge_memory: return -EINVAL in folio split functions when THP is disabled

From: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>

split_huge_page_to_list_[to_order](), split_huge_page() and
try_folio_split() return 0 on success and error codes on failure.

When THP is disabled, these functions return 0 indicating success even
though an error code should be returned as it is not possible to split a
folio when THP is disabled.

Make all these functions return -EINVAL to indicate failure instead of
0.

This issue was discovered while experimenting enabling large folios
without THP and found that returning 0 in these functions is resulting in
undefined behavior in truncate operations. This change fixes the issue.

Fixes: c010d47f107f ("mm: thp: split huge page to any lower order pages")
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@...sung.com>
---
 include/linux/huge_mm.h | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index 29ef70022da1..48c4f91c5b13 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -588,22 +588,22 @@ static inline int
 split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(struct page *page, struct list_head *list,
 		unsigned int new_order)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return -EINVAL;
 }
 static inline int split_huge_page(struct page *page)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
 static inline int split_folio_to_list(struct folio *folio, struct list_head *list)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
 static inline int try_folio_split(struct folio *folio, struct page *page,
 		struct list_head *list)
 {
-	return 0;
+	return -EINVAL;
 }
 
 static inline void deferred_split_folio(struct folio *folio, bool partially_mapped) {}

base-commit: 291634ccfd2820c09f6e8c4982c2dee8155d09ae
-- 
2.50.1