[PATCH v3 3/3] mm: khugepaged: fix folio is used after folio_put/unlock()
From: Vernon Yang
Date: Mon Aug 24 2026 - 05:36:05 EST
From: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
On the rollback path, folio_put() has already dropped the last reference
of new_folio. On the success path, new_folio is already unlocked and can
be freed concurrently. The trace_mm_khugepaged_collapse_file() is left
with a dangling folio pointer.
So using the folio_pfn() before dropping the reference, closing
use-after-free window.
Fixes: 4c9473e87e75 ("mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to collapse_file()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/huge_memory.h | 6 +++---
mm/khugepaged.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
index fa828967e1fb..5fb4d92cfd84 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
@@ -211,10 +211,10 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_khugepaged_scan_file,
);
TRACE_EVENT(mm_khugepaged_collapse_file,
- TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, struct folio *new_folio, pgoff_t index,
+ TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long new_pfn, pgoff_t index,
unsigned long addr, bool is_shmem, struct file *file,
int nr, int result),
- TP_ARGS(mm, new_folio, index, addr, is_shmem, file, nr, result),
+ TP_ARGS(mm, new_pfn, index, addr, is_shmem, file, nr, result),
TP_STRUCT__entry(
__field(struct mm_struct *, mm)
__field(unsigned long, hpfn)
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_khugepaged_collapse_file,
TP_fast_assign(
__entry->mm = mm;
- __entry->hpfn = new_folio ? folio_pfn(new_folio) : -1;
+ __entry->hpfn = new_pfn;
__entry->index = index;
__entry->addr = addr;
__entry->is_shmem = is_shmem;
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 4e0fca5942dd..24347f1a94ae 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2254,6 +2254,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
struct page *dst;
struct folio *folio, *tmp, *new_folio;
+ unsigned long new_pfn = -1;
pgoff_t index = 0, end = start + HPAGE_PMD_NR;
LIST_HEAD(pagelist);
XA_STATE_ORDER(xas, &mapping->i_pages, start, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
@@ -2633,6 +2634,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
retract_page_tables(mapping, start);
if (cc && !cc->is_khugepaged)
result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
+ new_pfn = folio_pfn(new_folio);
folio_unlock(new_folio);
/*
@@ -2671,12 +2673,13 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
}
new_folio->mapping = NULL;
+ new_pfn = folio_pfn(new_folio);
folio_unlock(new_folio);
folio_put(new_folio);
out:
VM_BUG_ON(!list_empty(&pagelist));
- trace_mm_khugepaged_collapse_file(mm, new_folio, index, addr, is_shmem, file, HPAGE_PMD_NR, result);
+ trace_mm_khugepaged_collapse_file(mm, new_pfn, index, addr, is_shmem, file, HPAGE_PMD_NR, result);
return result;
}
--
2.53.0