[PATCH v3 0/3] mm: khugepaged: fix tracepoint UAF
From: Vernon Yang
Date: Mon Aug 24 2026 - 05:34:32 EST
From: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
The khugepaged tracepoints take a folio pointer and call folio_pfn(),
but by then the folio may no longer be valid: freed after folio_put(),
folio_unlock() or pte_unmap_unlock(), or not a folio at all but an
xarray-encoded swap entry. On classic SPARSEMEM, dereferencing it oopses
khugepaged as soon as the trace event is enabled; on other memory models
it merely prints a bogus pfn.
Pass the pfn to the tracepoints directly, captured while the folio is
still pinned, closing the use-after-free windows in
mm_khugepaged_scan_file(), mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd() and
mm_khugepaged_collapse_file().
This series is based on mm-new.
V2 -> V3:
- Place folio_pfn() inside the xas_for_each() loop in PATCH#1.
- Already defaulted the pfn value to -1, to simple it in PATCH#2.
V1 -> V2:
- Instead of passing the folio, just pass the pfn directly.
- Using the folio_pfn() before dropping the reference or the page table
lock.
V2 : https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260815051924.194810-1-vernon2gm@xxxxxxxxx/
V1 : https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260811133655.267739-1-vernon2gm@xxxxxxxxx/
Vernon Yang (3):
mm: khugepaged: fix swap entry value to folio_pfn()
mm: khugepaged: fix folio is used after pte_unmap_unlock()
mm: khugepaged: fix folio is used after folio_put/unlock()
include/trace/events/huge_memory.h | 18 +++++++++---------
mm/khugepaged.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
base-commit: a032d41a86cb82a747bc14d9c82b3e153a9a9ab7
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