From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18.y] mm: khugepaged: fix swap entry value to folio_pfn()
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 18:12:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261104231213.892598-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026110433-example-husband-50dd@gregkh>
From: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>
[ Upstream commit 942c8ec27aa4ffc587511650718349964e1696e6 ]
Patch series "mm: khugepaged: fix tracepoint UAF", v5.
The khugepaged tracepoints take a folio pointer and call folio_pfn(), but
by then the folio may no longer be valid: freed after folio_put(),
folio_unlock() or pte_unmap_unlock(), or not a folio at all but an
xarray-encoded swap entry. On classic SPARSEMEM, dereferencing it oopses
khugepaged as soon as the trace event is enabled; on other memory models
it merely prints a bogus pfn.
Pass the pfn to the tracepoints directly, captured while the folio is
still pinned, closing the use-after-free windows in
mm_khugepaged_scan_file(), mm_khugepaged_scan_pmd() and
mm_khugepaged_collapse_file().
This patch (of 3):
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.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260909025804.3233645-1-vernon2gm@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260909025804.3233645-2-vernon2gm@gmail.com
Fixes: d41fd2016ed0 ("mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()")
Signed-off-by: Vernon Yang <yanglincheng@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
[ sashal: Retained int result instead of enum scan_result in hpage_collapse_scan_file(). ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
include/trace/events/huge_memory.h | 6 +++---
mm/khugepaged.c | 7 ++++++-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
index 2276614691dfd..1464d45c90abf 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
@@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ 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)
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ 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 e2ac26c05064f..cc3a09a0c2596 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -2308,6 +2308,7 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
int present, swap;
int node = NUMA_NO_NODE;
int result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
+ unsigned long failed_pfn = -1;
present = 0;
swap = 0;
@@ -2344,6 +2345,7 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
folio->index == start) {
/* Maybe PMD-mapped */
result = SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
/*
* For SCAN_PTE_MAPPED_HUGEPAGE, further processing
* by the caller won't touch the page cache, and so
@@ -2357,6 +2359,7 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
node = folio_nid(folio);
if (hpage_collapse_scan_abort(node, cc)) {
result = SCAN_SCAN_ABORT;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
folio_put(folio);
break;
}
@@ -2364,12 +2367,14 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
if (!folio_test_lru(folio)) {
result = SCAN_PAGE_LRU;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
folio_put(folio);
break;
}
if (folio_expected_ref_count(folio) + 1 != folio_ref_count(folio)) {
result = SCAN_PAGE_COUNT;
+ failed_pfn = folio_pfn(folio);
folio_put(folio);
break;
}
@@ -2401,7 +2406,7 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
}
}
- trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_file(mm, folio, file, present, swap, result);
+ trace_mm_khugepaged_scan_file(mm, failed_pfn, file, present, swap, result);
return result;
}
--
2.53.0
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2026-11-04 14:19 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: khugepaged: fix swap entry value to folio_pfn()" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree gregkh
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