This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
selinux: use __GFP_NOWARN with GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
selinux-use-__gfp_nowarn-with-gfp_nowait-in-the-avc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit d3b74f36a5b2d62c21783c578391211a4f210994
Author: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jun 9 09:37:17 2021 -0700
selinux: use __GFP_NOWARN with GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC
[ Upstream commit 648f2c6100cfa18e7dfe43bc0b9c3b73560d623c ]
In the field, we have seen lots of allocation failure from the call
path below.
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W Binder : 31542_2: page allocation failure: order:0, mode:0x800(GFP_NOWAIT), nodemask=(null),cpuset=background,mems_allowed=0
...
...
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W Call trace:
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : dump_backtrace.cfi_jt+0x0/0x8
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : dump_stack+0xc8/0x14c
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : warn_alloc+0x158/0x1c8
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x9d8/0xb80
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1c4/0x430
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : allocate_slab+0xb4/0x390
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : ___slab_alloc+0x12c/0x3a4
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : kmem_cache_alloc+0x358/0x5e4
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : avc_alloc_node+0x30/0x184
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : avc_update_node+0x54/0x4f0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : avc_has_extended_perms+0x1a4/0x460
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : selinux_file_ioctl+0x320/0x3d0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xec/0x1fc
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : el0_svc_common+0xc0/0x24c
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : el0_svc+0x28/0x88
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : el0_sync_handler+0x8c/0xf0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W : el0_sync+0x1a4/0x1c0
..
..
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010315 31557 31557 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:12.999 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 1010161 10686 10686 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W node 0 : slabs: 57, objs: 2907, free: 0
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W SLUB : Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0x900(GFP_NOWAIT|__GFP_ZERO)
06-03 13:29:13.000 10230 30892 30892 W cache : avc_node, object size: 72, buffer size: 80, default order: 0, min order: 0
Based on [1], selinux is tolerate for failure of memory allocation.
Then, use __GFP_NOWARN together.
[1] 476accbe2f6e ("selinux: use GFP_NOWAIT in the AVC kmem_caches")
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
[PM: subj fix, line wraps, normalized commit refs]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/security/selinux/avc.c b/security/selinux/avc.c
index d18cb32a242a..4a744b1cebc8 100644
--- a/security/selinux/avc.c
+++ b/security/selinux/avc.c
@@ -294,26 +294,27 @@ static struct avc_xperms_decision_node
struct avc_xperms_decision_node *xpd_node;
struct extended_perms_decision *xpd;
- xpd_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_decision_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ xpd_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_decision_cachep,
+ GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!xpd_node)
return NULL;
xpd = &xpd_node->xpd;
if (which & XPERMS_ALLOWED) {
xpd->allowed = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep,
- GFP_NOWAIT);
+ GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!xpd->allowed)
goto error;
}
if (which & XPERMS_AUDITALLOW) {
xpd->auditallow = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep,
- GFP_NOWAIT);
+ GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!xpd->auditallow)
goto error;
}
if (which & XPERMS_DONTAUDIT) {
xpd->dontaudit = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_data_cachep,
- GFP_NOWAIT);
+ GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!xpd->dontaudit)
goto error;
}
@@ -341,7 +342,7 @@ static struct avc_xperms_node *avc_xperms_alloc(void)
{
struct avc_xperms_node *xp_node;
- xp_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ xp_node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_xperms_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!xp_node)
return xp_node;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&xp_node->xpd_head);
@@ -497,7 +498,7 @@ static struct avc_node *avc_alloc_node(struct selinux_avc *avc)
{
struct avc_node *node;
- node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ node = kmem_cache_zalloc(avc_node_cachep, GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
if (!node)
goto out;
