From: "Harry Yoo (Oracle)" <harry@kernel.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>, Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>, Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH mm-hotfixes 2/2] mm/slub: return NULL early from kmalloc_nolock() in NMI on UP
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:47:35 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427054736.566559-3-harry@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260427054736.566559-1-harry@kernel.org>
On UP kernels (!CONFIG_SMP), spin_trylock() is a no-op that
unconditionally succeeds even when the lock is already held. As a
result, kmalloc_nolock() called from NMI context can re-enter the slab
allocator and acquire a lock that the interrupted context is already
holding, corrupting slab state.
With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK on UP, the following BUG is triggered with
the slub_kunit test module:
BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP on CPU#0, kunit_try_catch/243
[...]
Call Trace:
<NMI>
dump_stack_lvl+0x3f/0x60
do_raw_spin_trylock+0x41/0x50
_raw_spin_trylock+0x24/0x50
get_from_partial_node+0x120/0x4d0
___slab_alloc+0x8a/0x4c0
kmalloc_nolock_noprof+0x164/0x310
[...]
</NMI>
Fix this by returning NULL early when invoked from NMI on a UP kernel.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ad_cqe51pvr1WaDg@hyeyoo
Fixes: af92793e52c3 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().")
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
---
mm/slub.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 92362eeb13e5..b4ec15df92f6 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5339,6 +5339,10 @@ void *kmalloc_nolock_noprof(size_t size, gfp_t gfp_flags, int node)
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && (in_nmi() || in_hardirq()))
return NULL;
+ /* On UP, spin_trylock() always succeeds even when it is locked */
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP) && in_nmi())
+ return NULL;
+
retry:
if (unlikely(size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE))
return NULL;
--
2.43.0
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2026-04-27 5:47 ` [PATCH mm-hotfixes 1/2] mm/page_alloc: return NULL early from alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() in NMI on UP Harry Yoo (Oracle)
2026-04-27 5:53 ` Harry Yoo (Oracle)
2026-04-27 5:47 ` Harry Yoo (Oracle) [this message]
[not found] <20260427054205.560734-1-harry@kernel.org>
2026-04-27 5:42 ` [PATCH mm-hotfixes 2/2] mm/slub: return NULL early from kmalloc_nolock() " Harry Yoo (Oracle)
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