[PATCH v4 3/3] mm: khugepaged: fix folio is used after folio_put/unlock()

From: Vernon Yang

Date: Fri Aug 28 2026 - 02:02:13 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.

Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 6 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 4d360ae87769..52b4476898d9 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2256,6 +2256,7 @@ 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);
@@ -2275,6 +2276,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
result = alloc_charge_folio(&new_folio, mm, cc, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
goto out;
+ new_pfn = folio_pfn(new_folio);

mapping_set_update(&xas, mapping);

@@ -2678,7 +2680,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
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;
}

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2.53.0