From: "Harry Yoo (Meta)" <harry@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>, Hao Li <hao.li@linux.dev>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: kernel-team@meta.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH for-next v3 3/7] mm/slab: handle SLAB_FREE_NOLOCK in slab_free_hook() instead of open coding
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2026 15:09:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261115-kmalloc-nolock-fixes-v3-3-9034dd4ecaab@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261115-kmalloc-nolock-fixes-v3-0-9034dd4ecaab@kernel.org>
kfree_nolock() deliberately skips slab free hooks that should not be
called in unknown context. However, there is one more place that
needs the same thing: memcg_alloc_abort_single().
Instead of open coding slab_free_hook(), let it handle
SLAB_FREE_NOLOCK. This is required to correctly handle allocation
failures due to memcg charging.
kfree_nolock() now respects init_on_free which has been ignored.
Besides that, no functional change intended.
Fixes: af92793e52c3 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().")
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo (Meta) <harry@kernel.org>
---
mm/slub.c | 76 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------
1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 761dc2affea2..7c0adc104988 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2684,11 +2684,14 @@ struct rcu_delayed_free {
* - memcg_slab_post_alloc_hook()
* - alloc_tagging_slab_alloc_hook()
*
+ * slab_free_hook() assumes that memcg_slab_free_hook() and
+ * alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook() are already invoked.
+ *
* Free hooks that must handle missing corresponding alloc hooks:
* - kmemleak_free_recursive()
* - kfence_free()
*
- * Free hooks that have no alloc hook counterpart, and thus safe to call:
+ * Free hooks that have no alloc hook counterpart:
* - debug_check_no_locks_freed()
* - debug_check_no_obj_freed()
* - __kcsan_check_access()
@@ -2698,28 +2701,39 @@ bool slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x, unsigned int free_flags)
{
bool init = free_flags & SLAB_FREE_INIT;
bool after_rcu_delay = free_flags & SLAB_FREE_AFTER_RCU_DELAY;
+ bool allow_spin = free_flags_allow_spinning(free_flags);
/* Are the object contents still accessible? */
bool still_accessible = (s->flags & SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU) && !after_rcu_delay;
- kmemleak_free_recursive(x, s->flags);
kmsan_slab_free(s, x);
- debug_check_no_locks_freed(x, s->object_size);
+ /* Hooks that acquire locks or kmalloc_nolock() skips alloc hook counterpart */
+ if (likely(allow_spin)) {
+ kmemleak_free_recursive(x, s->flags);
+ debug_check_no_locks_freed(x, s->object_size);
- if (!(s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS))
- debug_check_no_obj_freed(x, s->object_size);
+ if (!(s->flags & SLAB_DEBUG_OBJECTS))
+ debug_check_no_obj_freed(x, s->object_size);
- /* Use KCSAN to help debug racy use-after-free. */
- if (!still_accessible)
- __kcsan_check_access(x, s->object_size,
- KCSAN_ACCESS_WRITE | KCSAN_ACCESS_ASSERT);
+ /* Use KCSAN to help debug racy use-after-free. */
+ if (!still_accessible)
+ __kcsan_check_access(x, s->object_size,
+ KCSAN_ACCESS_WRITE | KCSAN_ACCESS_ASSERT);
- if (kfence_free(x))
- return false;
+ if (kfence_free(x))
+ return false;
+ }
/*
* Give KASAN a chance to notice an invalid free operation before we
* modify the object.
+ *
+ * If KASAN finds a bug it will do kasan_report_invalid_free() which
+ * will call raw_spin_lock_irqsave() which is technically unsafe from
+ * NMI, but take chance and report kernel bug. The sequence of
+ * kasan_report_invalid_free() -> raw_spin_lock_irqsave() -> NMI
+ * -> kfree_nolock() -> kasan_report_invalid_free() on the same CPU
+ * is double buggy and deserves to deadlock.
*/
if (kasan_slab_pre_free(s, x))
return false;
@@ -2728,6 +2742,7 @@ bool slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x, unsigned int free_flags)
if (still_accessible) {
struct rcu_delayed_free *delayed_free;
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!allow_spin);
delayed_free = kmalloc_obj(*delayed_free, GFP_NOWAIT);
if (delayed_free) {
/*
@@ -2775,8 +2790,11 @@ bool slab_free_hook(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x, unsigned int free_flags)
set_orig_size(s, x, orig_size);
}
- /* KASAN might put x into memory quarantine, delaying its reuse. */
- return !kasan_slab_free(s, x, init, still_accessible, false);
+ /*
+ * KASAN might put x into memory quarantine, delaying its reuse.
+ * Skip quarantine when spinning is not allowed as it uses a spinlock.
+ */
+ return !kasan_slab_free(s, x, init, still_accessible, !allow_spin);
}
static __fastpath_inline
@@ -6935,6 +6953,7 @@ void kfree_nolock(const void *object)
struct slab *slab;
struct kmem_cache *s;
void *x = (void *)object;
+ unsigned int free_flags = SLAB_FREE_NOLOCK;
if (unlikely(ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(object)))
return;
@@ -6949,33 +6968,12 @@ void kfree_nolock(const void *object)
memcg_slab_free_hook(s, slab, &x, 1);
alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook(s, slab, &x, 1);
- /*
- * Unlike slab_free() do NOT call the following:
- * kmemleak_free_recursive(x, s->flags);
- * debug_check_no_locks_freed(x, s->object_size);
- * debug_check_no_obj_freed(x, s->object_size);
- * __kcsan_check_access(x, s->object_size, ..);
- * kfence_free(x);
- * since they take spinlocks or not safe from any context.
- */
- kmsan_slab_free(s, x);
- /*
- * If KASAN finds a kernel bug it will do kasan_report_invalid_free()
- * which will call raw_spin_lock_irqsave() which is technically
- * unsafe from NMI, but take chance and report kernel bug.
- * The sequence of
- * kasan_report_invalid_free() -> raw_spin_lock_irqsave() -> NMI
- * -> kfree_nolock() -> kasan_report_invalid_free() on the same CPU
- * is double buggy and deserves to deadlock.
- */
- if (kasan_slab_pre_free(s, x))
+
+ if (slab_want_init_on_free(s))
+ free_flags |= SLAB_FREE_INIT;
+
+ if (unlikely(!slab_free_hook(s, x, free_flags)))
return;
- /*
- * memcg, kasan_slab_pre_free are done for 'x'.
- * The only thing left is kasan_poison without quarantine,
- * since kasan quarantine takes locks and not supported from NMI.
- */
- kasan_slab_free(s, x, false, false, /* skip quarantine */true);
if (likely(can_free_to_pcs(slab)) && likely(free_to_pcs(s, x, false)))
return;
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-15 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-15 15:09 [PATCH for-next v3 0/7] memcg,slab: kmalloc_nolock() fixes Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-11-15 15:09 ` [PATCH for-next v3 1/7] mm/memcontrol: defer obj_cgroup_release() to irq_work Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-11-15 15:09 ` [PATCH for-next v3 2/7] mm/slab: pass free_flags to slab_free_hook() Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-11-15 15:09 ` Harry Yoo (Meta) [this message]
2026-11-15 15:09 ` [PATCH for-next v3 4/7] mm/slab: fix a deadlock in memcg_alloc_abort_single() Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-11-15 15:09 ` [PATCH for-next v3 5/7] mm/slab: serialize deferred_work_barrier() Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-11-15 15:09 ` [PATCH for-next v3 6/7] mm/slab: refactor free_to_pcs() Harry Yoo (Meta)
2026-11-15 15:09 ` [PATCH for-next v3 7/7] mm/slab: call debug_locks and KCSAN checks in kfree_nolock() Harry Yoo (Meta)
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