On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 8:11 PM Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 04/10/2019 23:46, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > In case of an error (e.g. memory pool too small), kmemleak disables
> > itself and cleans up the already allocated metadata objects. However, if
> > this happens early before the RCU callback mechanism is available,
> > put_object() skips call_rcu() and frees the object directly. This is not
> > safe with the RCU list traversal in __kmemleak_do_cleanup().
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> > Change the list traversal in __kmemleak_do_cleanup() to
> > list_for_each_entry_safe() and remove the rcu_read_{lock,unlock} since
> > the kmemleak is already disabled at this point. In addition, avoid an
> > unnecessary metadata object rb-tree look-up since it already has the
> > struct kmemleak_object pointer.
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> > Fixes: c5665868183f ("mm: kmemleak: use the memory pool for early allocations")
> > Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
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> Tested-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
This fixes my vm, which could not boot with 5.4-rc3.
Thanks,
Song
