Re: [PATCH v2] mm/kmemleak: Fix sleeping function called from invalid context at print message

Catalin Marinas
2024-12-19T16:55:13Z

On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 02:20:33PM +0000, Alessandro Carminati wrote:
> Address a bug in the kernel that triggers a "sleeping function called from
> invalid context" warning when /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak is printed under
> specific conditions:
> - CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y
> - Set SELinux as the LSM for the system
> - Set kptr_restrict to 1
> - kmemleak buffer contains at least one item
>
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
> in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 136, name: cat
> preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
> RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 2
> 6 locks held by cat/136:
> #0: ffff32e64bcbf950 (&p->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: seq_read_iter+0xb8/0xe30
> #1: ffffafe6aaa9dea0 (scan_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kmemleak_seq_start+0x34/0x128
> #3: ffff32e6546b1cd0 (&object->lock){....}-{2:2}, at: kmemleak_seq_show+0x3c/0x1e0
> #4: ffffafe6aa8d8560 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: has_ns_capability_noaudit+0x8/0x1b0
> #5: ffffafe6aabbc0f8 (notif_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: avc_compute_av+0xc4/0x3d0
> irq event stamp: 136660
> hardirqs last enabled at (136659): [<ffffafe6a80fd7a0>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xa8/0xd8
> hardirqs last disabled at (136660): [<ffffafe6a80fd85c>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x8c/0xb0
> softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffafe6a5d50b28>] copy_process+0x11d8/0x3df8
> softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
> Preemption disabled at:
> [<ffffafe6a6598a4c>] kmemleak_seq_show+0x3c/0x1e0
> CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 136 Comm: cat Tainted: G E 6.11.0-rt7+ #34
> Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> Call trace:
> dump_backtrace+0xa0/0x128
> show_stack+0x1c/0x30
> dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x198
> dump_stack+0x18/0x20
> rt_spin_lock+0x8c/0x1a8
> avc_perm_nonode+0xa0/0x150
> cred_has_capability.isra.0+0x118/0x218
> selinux_capable+0x50/0x80
> security_capable+0x7c/0xd0
> has_ns_capability_noaudit+0x94/0x1b0
> has_capability_noaudit+0x20/0x30
> restricted_pointer+0x21c/0x4b0
> pointer+0x298/0x760
> vsnprintf+0x330/0xf70
> seq_printf+0x178/0x218
> print_unreferenced+0x1a4/0x2d0
> kmemleak_seq_show+0xd0/0x1e0
> seq_read_iter+0x354/0xe30
> seq_read+0x250/0x378
> full_proxy_read+0xd8/0x148
> vfs_read+0x190/0x918
> ksys_read+0xf0/0x1e0
> __arm64_sys_read+0x70/0xa8
> invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0xd4/0x1d8
> el0_svc+0x50/0x158
> el0t_64_sync+0x17c/0x180
>
> %pS and %pK, in the same back trace line, are redundant, and %pS can void
> %pK service in certain contexts.
>
> %pS alone already provides the necessary information, and if it cannot
> resolve the symbol, it falls back to printing the raw address voiding
> the original intent behind the %pK.
>
> Additionally, %pK requires a privilege check CAP_SYSLOG enforced through
> the LSM, which can trigger a "sleeping function called from invalid
> context" warning under RT_PREEMPT kernels when the check occurs in an
> atomic context. This issue may also affect other LSMs.
>
> This change avoids the unnecessary privilege check and resolves the
> sleeping function warning without any loss of information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alessandro Carminati <acarmina@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>