+ lib-alloc_tag-do-not-acquire-non-existent-lock-in-alloc_tag_top_users.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

+ lib-alloc_tag-do-not-acquire-non-existent-lock-in-alloc_tag_top_users.patch added to mm-hotfixes-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: lib/alloc_tag: do not acquire non-existent lock in alloc_tag_top_users()
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     lib-alloc_tag-do-not-acquire-non-existent-lock-in-alloc_tag_top_users.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/lib-alloc_tag-do-not-acquire-non-existent-lock-in-alloc_tag_top_users.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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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 acquire the semaphore.

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
Cc: Casey Chen <cachen@purestorage.com>
Cc: David Wang <00107082@163.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/alloc_tag.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/alloc_tag.c~lib-alloc_tag-do-not-acquire-non-existent-lock-in-alloc_tag_top_users
+++ a/lib/alloc_tag.c
@@ -135,7 +135,9 @@ size_t alloc_tag_top_users(struct codeta
 	struct codetag_bytes n;
 	unsigned int i, nr = 0;
 
-	if (can_sleep)
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(alloc_tag_cttype))
+		return 0;
+	else if (can_sleep)
 		codetag_lock_module_list(alloc_tag_cttype, true);
 	else if (!codetag_trylock_module_list(alloc_tag_cttype))
 		return 0;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from harry.yoo@oracle.com are

lib-alloc_tag-do-not-acquire-non-existent-lock-in-alloc_tag_top_users.patch
lib-alloc_tag-do-not-acquire-nonexistent-lock-when-mem-profiling-is-disabled.patch