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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
	Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>, Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
	SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>, Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:40:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260715114037.728053-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260715114037.728053-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>

[ Upstream commit b902890c62d200b3509cb5e09cf1e0a66553c128 ]

Reading the debugfs "count" file of a memcg-aware shrinker can sleep
inside an RCU read-side critical section:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:421
  RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0
   css_rstat_flush
   mem_cgroup_flush_stats
   zswap_shrinker_count
   shrinker_debugfs_count_show

shrinker_debugfs_count_show() invokes the ->count_objects() callback under
rcu_read_lock().  The zswap callback flushes memcg stats via
css_rstat_flush(), which may sleep, so it must not run under RCU.

The RCU lock is not needed here.  mem_cgroup_iter() takes RCU internally
and returns a memcg holding a css reference (dropped on the next iteration
or by mem_cgroup_iter_break()), so the memcg stays alive without it.  The
shrinker is kept alive by the open debugfs file: shrinker_free() removes
the debugfs entries via debugfs_remove_recursive(), which waits for
in-flight readers to drain, before call_rcu(..., shrinker_free_rcu_cb).
The sibling "scan" handler already invokes the sleeping ->scan_objects()
callback with no RCU section.

Drop the rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260610232048.62930-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
Fixes: 5035ebc644ae ("mm: shrinkers: introduce debugfs interface for memory shrinkers")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reported-by: Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c052a064-cddb-494f-a0d8-f8a10b4b1c4d@linux.dev/
Suggested-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Zenghui Yu (Huawei) <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 mm/shrinker_debug.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shrinker_debug.c b/mm/shrinker_debug.c
index 61702bdc1af48d..56b1e3a5020dd5 100644
--- a/mm/shrinker_debug.c
+++ b/mm/shrinker_debug.c
@@ -55,8 +55,6 @@ static int shrinker_debugfs_count_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 	if (!count_per_node)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
-
 	memcg_aware = shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE;
 
 	memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
@@ -86,8 +84,6 @@ static int shrinker_debugfs_count_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 		}
 	} while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)) != NULL);
 
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-
 	kfree(count_per_node);
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-07-15 11:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-13 13:42 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-15 11:40 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] mm: shrinker: remove redundant shrinker_rwsem in debugfs operations Sasha Levin
2026-07-15 11:40   ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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