From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,yanglincheng@kylinos.cn,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: + mm-khugepaged-fix-folio-is-used-after-pte_unmap_unlock.patch added to mm-unstable branch
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:58:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909065853.B0CCE1F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The patch titled
Subject: mm: khugepaged: fix folio is used after pte_unmap_unlock()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-khugepaged-fix-folio-is-used-after-pte_unmap_unlock.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-khugepaged-fix-folio-is-used-after-pte_unmap_unlock.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>
Subject: mm: khugepaged: fix folio is used after pte_unmap_unlock()
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 10:58:02 +0800
After the page table lock has dropped, the folio can be freed
concurrently. The trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd() is left with a dangling
folio pointer.
So using the folio_pfn() before dropping the page table lock, closing
use-after-free window.
And other pre-existing bug, When the `for (i = 0; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++)`
iteration to terminate and the folio operation preceding is normal, but
pfn will be incorrect. so we really only trace the PFN if it really was
problematic.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260909025804.3233645-3-vernon2gm@gmail.com
Fixes: 7d2eba0557c1 ("mm: add tracepoint for scanning pages")
Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/trace/events/huge_memory.h | 6 +++---
mm/khugepaged.c | 10 +++++++++-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h~mm-khugepaged-fix-folio-is-used-after-pte_unmap_unlock
+++ a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ SCAN_STATUS
TRACE_EVENT(mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd,
- TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, struct folio *folio,
+ TP_PROTO(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long pfn,
int referenced, int none_or_zero, int status, int unmapped),
- TP_ARGS(mm, folio, referenced, none_or_zero, status, unmapped),
+ TP_ARGS(mm, pfn, referenced, none_or_zero, status, unmapped),
TP_STRUCT__entry(
__field(struct mm_struct *, mm)
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd,
TP_fast_assign(
__entry->mm = mm;
- __entry->pfn = folio ? folio_pfn(folio) : -1;
+ __entry->pfn = pfn;
__entry->referenced = referenced;
__entry->none_or_zero = none_or_zero;
__entry->status = status;
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c~mm-khugepaged-fix-folio-is-used-after-pte_unmap_unlock
+++ a/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1612,6 +1612,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pm
enum scan_result result = SCAN_FAIL;
struct page *page = NULL;
struct folio *folio = NULL;
+ unsigned long failed_pfn = -1;
unsigned long addr;
unsigned long enabled_orders;
spinlock_t *ptl;
@@ -1706,11 +1707,13 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pm
if (cc->is_khugepaged && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_DROPPABLE) &&
folio_test_lazyfree(folio) && !pte_dirty(pteval)) {
result = SCAN_PAGE_LAZYFREE;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
goto out_unmap;
}
if (!folio_test_anon(folio)) {
result = SCAN_PAGE_ANON;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
goto out_unmap;
}
@@ -1721,6 +1724,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pm
if (folio_maybe_mapped_shared(folio)) {
if (++shared > max_ptes_shared) {
result = SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
count_collapse_event(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER, THP_SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE,
MTHP_STAT_COLLAPSE_EXCEED_SHARED);
goto out_unmap;
@@ -1738,15 +1742,18 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pm
node = folio_nid(folio);
if (collapse_scan_abort(node, cc)) {
result = SCAN_SCAN_ABORT;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
goto out_unmap;
}
cc->node_load[node]++;
if (!folio_test_lru(folio)) {
result = SCAN_PAGE_LRU;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
goto out_unmap;
}
if (folio_test_locked(folio)) {
result = SCAN_PAGE_LOCK;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
goto out_unmap;
}
@@ -1759,6 +1766,7 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_scan_pm
*/
if (folio_expected_ref_count(folio) != folio_ref_count(folio)) {
result = SCAN_PAGE_COUNT;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
goto out_unmap;
}
@@ -1784,7 +1792,7 @@ out_unmap:
*lock_dropped = true;
}
out:
- trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd(mm, folio, referenced,
+ trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd(mm, failed_pfn, referenced,
none_or_zero, result, unmapped);
return result;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from yanglincheng@kylinos.cn are
x86-mm-fix-pmd_modify-dropping-the-dirty-bit.patch
mm-khugepaged-fix-swap-entry-value-to-folio_pfn.patch
mm-khugepaged-fix-folio-is-used-after-pte_unmap_unlock.patch
mm-khugepaged-fix-folio-is-used-after-folio_put-unlock.patch
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