From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,yzhong@purestorage.com,surenb@google.com,stable@vger.kernel.org,raghavendra.kt@amd.com,oliver.sang@intel.com,kent.overstreet@linux.dev,cachen@purestorage.com,00107082@163.com,harry.yoo@oracle.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-hotfixes-stable] lib-alloc_tag-do-not-acquire-non-existent-lock-in-alloc_tag_top_users.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:08:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250710040859.EFC8EC4CEED@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: lib/alloc_tag: do not acquire non-existent lock in alloc_tag_top_users()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
lib-alloc_tag-do-not-acquire-non-existent-lock-in-alloc_tag_top_users.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------
From: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Subject: lib/alloc_tag: do not acquire non-existent lock in alloc_tag_top_users()
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 04:53:05 +0900
alloc_tag_top_users() attempts to lock alloc_tag_cttype->mod_lock even
when the alloc_tag_cttype is not allocated because:
1) alloc tagging is disabled because mem profiling is disabled
(!alloc_tag_cttype)
2) alloc tagging is enabled, but not yet initialized (!alloc_tag_cttype)
3) alloc tagging is enabled, but failed initialization
(!alloc_tag_cttype or IS_ERR(alloc_tag_cttype))
In all cases, alloc_tag_cttype is not allocated, and therefore
alloc_tag_top_users() should not attempt to acquire the semaphore.
This leads to a crash on memory allocation failure by attempting to
acquire a non-existent semaphore:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000001b: 0000 [#3] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000000d8-0x00000000000000df]
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G D 6.16.0-rc2 #1 VOLUNTARY
Tainted: [D]=DIE
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:down_read_trylock+0xaa/0x3b0
Code: d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 a0 02 00 00 8b 0d df 31 dd 04 85 c9 75 29 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 8d 6b 68 48 89 ea 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 88 02 00 00 48 3b 5b 68 0f 85 53 01 00 00 65 ff
RSP: 0000:ffff8881002ce9b8 EFLAGS: 00010016
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000070 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000001b RSI: 000000000000000a RDI: 0000000000000070
RBP: 00000000000000d8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed107dde49d1
R10: ffff8883eef24e8b R11: ffff8881002cec20 R12: 1ffff11020059d37
R13: 00000000003fff7b R14: ffff8881002cec20 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS: 00007f963f21d940(0000) GS:ffff888458ca6000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f963f5edf71 CR3: 000000010672c000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
codetag_trylock_module_list+0xd/0x20
alloc_tag_top_users+0x369/0x4b0
__show_mem+0x1cd/0x6e0
warn_alloc+0x2b1/0x390
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x12b9/0x21a0
alloc_pages_mpol+0x135/0x3e0
alloc_slab_page+0x82/0xe0
new_slab+0x212/0x240
___slab_alloc+0x82a/0xe00
</TASK>
As David Wang points out, this issue became easier to trigger after commit
780138b12381 ("alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init").
Before the commit, the issue occurred only when it failed to allocate and
initialize alloc_tag_cttype or if a memory allocation fails before
alloc_tag_init() is called. After the commit, it can be easily triggered
when memory profiling is compiled but disabled at boot.
To properly determine whether alloc_tag_init() has been called and its
data structures initialized, verify that alloc_tag_cttype is a valid
pointer before acquiring the semaphore. If the variable is NULL or an
error value, it has not been properly initialized. In such a case, just
skip and do not attempt to acquire the semaphore.
[harry.yoo@oracle.com: v3]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250624072513.84219-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250620195305.1115151-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com
Fixes: 780138b12381 ("alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init")
Fixes: 1438d349d16b ("lib: add memory allocations report in show_mem()")
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202506181351.bba867dd-lkp@intel.com
Acked-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Tested-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@amd.com>
Cc: Casey Chen <cachen@purestorage.com>
Cc: David Wang <00107082@163.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Yuanyuan Zhong <yzhong@purestorage.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
lib/alloc_tag.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/lib/alloc_tag.c~lib-alloc_tag-do-not-acquire-non-existent-lock-in-alloc_tag_top_users
+++ a/lib/alloc_tag.c
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ size_t alloc_tag_top_users(struct codeta
struct codetag_bytes n;
unsigned int i, nr = 0;
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(alloc_tag_cttype))
+ return 0;
+
if (can_sleep)
codetag_lock_module_list(alloc_tag_cttype, true);
else if (!codetag_trylock_module_list(alloc_tag_cttype))
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from harry.yoo@oracle.com are
mm-zsmalloc-do-not-pass-__gfp_movable-if-config_compaction=n.patch
mm-check-if-folio-has-valid-mapcount-before-folio_test_anonksm-when-necessary.patch
reply other threads:[~2025-07-10 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20250710040859.EFC8EC4CEED@smtp.kernel.org \
--to=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=00107082@163.com \
--cc=cachen@purestorage.com \
--cc=harry.yoo@oracle.com \
--cc=kent.overstreet@linux.dev \
--cc=mm-commits@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=oliver.sang@intel.com \
--cc=raghavendra.kt@amd.com \
--cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=surenb@google.com \
--cc=yzhong@purestorage.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.