From: Vernon Yang <vernon2gm@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org, ljs@kernel.org
Cc: nico.pache@linux.dev, ryan.roberts@arm.com, dev.jain@arm.com,
baohua@kernel.org, lance.yang@linux.dev, usama.arif@linux.dev,
zokeefe@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: khugepaged: don't pass swap entry value to trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_file()
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:36:55 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260811133655.267739-1-vernon2gm@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>
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 set folio to NULL before breaking out, the tracepoint maps NULL to
scan_pfn of -1, just like exhausted scan naturally.
Fixes: d41fd2016ed0 ("mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>
---
mm/khugepaged.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 617bca76db49..bc0d04c9162d 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2696,6 +2696,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm,
if (xa_is_value(folio)) {
swap += 1 << xas_get_order(&xas);
if (swap > max_ptes_swap) {
+ folio = NULL;
result = SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE;
count_vm_event(THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE);
break;
base-commit: 075b74841bd0065a3bda3440873c747938e69b68
--
2.53.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-11 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-11 13:36 Vernon Yang [this message]
2026-08-11 15:19 ` [PATCH] mm: khugepaged: don't pass swap entry value to trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_file() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-08-11 19:12 ` Andrew Morton
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