The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 850470a8413a8a78e772c4f6bd9fe81ec6bd5b0f # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025090635-affluent-reputable-419b@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..
Possible dependencies:
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 850470a8413a8a78e772c4f6bd9fe81ec6bd5b0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: yangshiguang yangshiguang@xiaomi.com Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 10:09:46 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: slub: avoid wake up kswapd in set_track_prepare
set_track_prepare() can incur lock recursion. The issue is that it is called from hrtimer_start_range_ns holding the per_cpu(hrtimer_bases)[n].lock, but when enabled CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS, may wake up kswapd in set_track_prepare, and try to hold the per_cpu(hrtimer_bases)[n].lock.
Avoid deadlock caused by implicitly waking up kswapd by passing in allocation flags, which do not contain __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM in the debug_objects_fill_pool() case. Inside stack depot they are processed by gfp_nested_mask(). Since ___slab_alloc() has preemption disabled, we mask out __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM from the flags there.
The oops looks something like:
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#3, swapper/3/0 lock: 0xffffff8a4bf29c80, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/3/0, .owner_cpu: 3 Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Popsicle based on SM8850 (DT) Call trace: spin_bug+0x0 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x80 hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x94 task_contending+0x10c enqueue_dl_entity+0x2a4 dl_server_start+0x74 enqueue_task_fair+0x568 enqueue_task+0xac do_activate_task+0x14c ttwu_do_activate+0xcc try_to_wake_up+0x6c8 default_wake_function+0x20 autoremove_wake_function+0x1c __wake_up+0xac wakeup_kswapd+0x19c wake_all_kswapds+0x78 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x1ac __alloc_pages_noprof+0x298 stack_depot_save_flags+0x6b0 stack_depot_save+0x14 set_track_prepare+0x5c ___slab_alloc+0xccc __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x470 __set_page_owner+0x2bc post_alloc_hook[jt]+0x1b8 prep_new_page+0x28 get_page_from_freelist+0x1edc __alloc_pages_noprof+0x13c alloc_slab_page+0x244 allocate_slab+0x7c ___slab_alloc+0x8e8 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x450 debug_objects_fill_pool+0x22c debug_object_activate+0x40 enqueue_hrtimer[jt]+0xdc hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x5f8 ...
Signed-off-by: yangshiguang yangshiguang@xiaomi.com Fixes: 5cf909c553e9 ("mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 1787e4d51e48..d257141896c9 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -962,19 +962,19 @@ static struct track *get_track(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, }
#ifdef CONFIG_STACKDEPOT -static noinline depot_stack_handle_t set_track_prepare(void) +static noinline depot_stack_handle_t set_track_prepare(gfp_t gfp_flags) { depot_stack_handle_t handle; unsigned long entries[TRACK_ADDRS_COUNT]; unsigned int nr_entries;
nr_entries = stack_trace_save(entries, ARRAY_SIZE(entries), 3); - handle = stack_depot_save(entries, nr_entries, GFP_NOWAIT); + handle = stack_depot_save(entries, nr_entries, gfp_flags);
return handle; } #else -static inline depot_stack_handle_t set_track_prepare(void) +static inline depot_stack_handle_t set_track_prepare(gfp_t gfp_flags) { return 0; } @@ -996,9 +996,9 @@ static void set_track_update(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, }
static __always_inline void set_track(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, - enum track_item alloc, unsigned long addr) + enum track_item alloc, unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags) { - depot_stack_handle_t handle = set_track_prepare(); + depot_stack_handle_t handle = set_track_prepare(gfp_flags);
set_track_update(s, object, alloc, addr, handle); } @@ -1926,9 +1926,9 @@ static inline bool free_debug_processing(struct kmem_cache *s, static inline void slab_pad_check(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab) {} static inline int check_object(struct kmem_cache *s, struct slab *slab, void *object, u8 val) { return 1; } -static inline depot_stack_handle_t set_track_prepare(void) { return 0; } +static inline depot_stack_handle_t set_track_prepare(gfp_t gfp_flags) { return 0; } static inline void set_track(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object, - enum track_item alloc, unsigned long addr) {} + enum track_item alloc, unsigned long addr, gfp_t gfp_flags) {} static inline void add_full(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_node *n, struct slab *slab) {} static inline void remove_full(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_node *n, @@ -3881,9 +3881,14 @@ static void *___slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node, * For debug caches here we had to go through * alloc_single_from_partial() so just store the * tracking info and return the object. + * + * Due to disabled preemption we need to disallow + * blocking. The flags are further adjusted by + * gfp_nested_mask() in stack_depot itself. */ if (s->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER) - set_track(s, freelist, TRACK_ALLOC, addr); + set_track(s, freelist, TRACK_ALLOC, addr, + gfpflags & ~(__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM));
return freelist; } @@ -3915,7 +3920,8 @@ static void *___slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags, int node, goto new_objects;
if (s->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER) - set_track(s, freelist, TRACK_ALLOC, addr); + set_track(s, freelist, TRACK_ALLOC, addr, + gfpflags & ~(__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM));
return freelist; } @@ -4426,8 +4432,12 @@ static noinline void free_to_partial_list( unsigned long flags; depot_stack_handle_t handle = 0;
+ /* + * We cannot use GFP_NOWAIT as there are callsites where waking up + * kswapd could deadlock + */ if (s->flags & SLAB_STORE_USER) - handle = set_track_prepare(); + handle = set_track_prepare(__GFP_NOWARN);
spin_lock_irqsave(&n->list_lock, flags);