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From: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	lance.yang@linux.dev,  Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,  Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com, sj@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	 kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/3] mm/kmemleak: stop the task stack scan early when interrupted
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:49:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260615-kmemleak-stack-resched-v3-2-acecd7d7fd92@debian.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260615-kmemleak-stack-resched-v3-0-acecd7d7fd92@debian.org>

scan_block() already checks scan_should_stop() for every pointer and
bails out of the current block, but the task stack walk cannot tell and
keeps issuing a separate scan_should_stop() between every task.

Return that status from scan_block() and use it as the task stack loop
condition, so the walk stops as soon as a scan is interrupted.

Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
---
 mm/kmemleak.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index a7786b6bc174e..916af7cecb3b4 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1524,22 +1524,25 @@ static int scan_should_stop(void)
 
 /*
  * Scan a memory block (exclusive range) for valid pointers and add those
- * found to the gray list.
+ * found to the gray list. Return non-zero if the scan was interrupted.
  */
-static void scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
-		       struct kmemleak_object *scanned)
+static int scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
+		      struct kmemleak_object *scanned)
 {
 	unsigned long *ptr;
 	unsigned long *start = PTR_ALIGN(_start, BYTES_PER_POINTER);
 	unsigned long *end = _end - (BYTES_PER_POINTER - 1);
 	unsigned long flags;
+	int stop = 0;
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags);
 	for (ptr = start; ptr < end; ptr++) {
 		unsigned long pointer;
 
-		if (scan_should_stop())
+		if (scan_should_stop()) {
+			stop = 1;
 			break;
+		}
 
 		kasan_disable_current();
 		pointer = *(unsigned long *)kasan_reset_tag((void *)ptr);
@@ -1549,6 +1552,8 @@ static void scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
 		pointer_update_refs(scanned, pointer, OBJECT_PERCPU);
 	}
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kmemleak_lock, flags);
+
+	return stop;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1704,6 +1709,7 @@ static void kmemleak_scan_task_stacks(void)
 {
 	struct pid *pid;
 	int nr = 1;
+	int stop = 0;
 
 	do {
 		struct task_struct *p = NULL;
@@ -1722,13 +1728,13 @@ static void kmemleak_scan_task_stacks(void)
 			void *stack = try_get_task_stack(p);
 
 			if (stack) {
-				scan_block(stack, stack + THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
+				stop = scan_block(stack, stack + THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
 				put_task_stack(p);
 			}
 			put_task_struct(p);
 		}
 		cond_resched();
-	} while (pid && !scan_should_stop());
+	} while (pid && !stop);
 }
 
 /*

-- 
2.53.0-Meta


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-15 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-15 17:49 [PATCH v3 0/3] mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup when scanning task stacks Breno Leitao
2026-06-15 17:49 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] " Breno Leitao
2026-06-15 18:24   ` Catalin Marinas
2026-06-15 18:46   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2026-06-16  2:31   ` Lance Yang
2026-06-16  9:48   ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-06-15 17:49 ` Breno Leitao [this message]
2026-06-15 18:26   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mm/kmemleak: stop the task stack scan early when interrupted Catalin Marinas
2026-06-16  9:49   ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-06-15 17:49 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/kmemleak: stop the per-cpu and struct page scans early too Breno Leitao
2026-06-15 18:27   ` Catalin Marinas
2026-06-16 10:07   ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-06-16 12:46     ` Breno Leitao
2026-06-16 13:10       ` Oleg Nesterov

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