[PATCH v2 1/3] mm: khugepaged: fix swap entry value to folio_pfn()
From: Vernon Yang
Date: Sat Aug 15 2026 - 01:20:39 EST
From: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
When the swap entries found exceed max_ptes_swap, the loop is left via
break with folio still holding the xarray value that encodes the swap
entry, not valid folio pointer.
That value is passed to trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_file(), which feeds it
to folio_pfn(). On FLATMEM and SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, the page_to_pfn() is
plain pointer arithmetic, so the trace event merely prints bogus
scan_pfn. On classic SPARSEMEM, the page_to_pfn() reads page->flags,
dereferencing the tiny encoded integer and oopsing khugepaged whenever
the trace event is enabled.
So when folio is the swap entry value, simply set pfn to -1, just like
exhausted scan naturally.
And the folio_put() has maybe dropped the last reference of folio. The
trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_file() is left with a dangling folio pointer.
so using the folio_pfn() before dropping the reference, closing
use-after-free window.
Fixes: d41fd2016ed0 ("mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/huge_memory.h | 6 +++---
mm/khugepaged.c | 14 +++++++++-----
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
index 291fae364c62..d3572d4ef453 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
@@ -178,10 +178,10 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_collapse_huge_page_swapin,
TRACE_EVENT(mm_khugepaged_scan_file,
- TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, struct folio *folio, struct file *file,
+ TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long pfn, struct file *file,
int present, int swap, int result),
- TP_ARGS(mm, folio, file, present, swap, result),
+ TP_ARGS(mm, pfn, file, present, swap, result),
TP_STRUCT__entry(
__field(struct mm_struct *, mm)
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_khugepaged_scan_file,
TP_fast_assign(
__entry->mm = mm;
- __entry->pfn = folio ? folio_pfn(folio) : -1;
+ __entry->pfn = pfn;
__assign_str(filename);
__entry->present = present;
__entry->swap = swap;
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 617bca76db49..e7830761d3a2 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2683,6 +2683,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
int present, swap;
int node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
enum scan_result result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
+ unsigned long pfn;
present = 0;
swap = 0;
@@ -2720,27 +2721,23 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
* PMD-sized THP implies that we can only try
* retracting the PTE table.
*/
- folio_put(folio);
break;
}
node = folio_nid(folio);
if (collapse_scan_abort(node, cc)) {
result = SCAN_SCAN_ABORT;
- folio_put(folio);
break;
}
cc->node_load[node]++;
if (!folio_test_lru(folio)) {
result = SCAN_PAGE_LRU;
- folio_put(folio);
break;
}
if (folio_expected_ref_count(folio) + 1 != folio_ref_count(folio)) {
result = SCAN_PAGE_COUNT;
- folio_put(folio);
break;
}
@@ -2759,7 +2756,14 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
cond_resched_rcu();
}
}
+ if (!folio || xa_is_value(folio)) {
+ pfn = -1;
+ } else {
+ pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
+ folio_put(folio);
+ }
rcu_read_unlock();
+
if (result == SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE)
cc->progress++;
else
@@ -2774,7 +2778,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
}
}
- trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_file(mm, folio, file, present, swap, result);
+ trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_file(mm, pfn, file, present, swap, result);
return result;
}
--
2.53.0