This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm: kfence: fix using kfence_metadata without initialization in show_object() to the 6.1-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: mm-kfence-fix-using-kfence_metadata-without-initialization-in-show_object.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1c86a188e03156223a34d09ce290b49bd4dd0403 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:44:41 +0800 Subject: mm: kfence: fix using kfence_metadata without initialization in show_object() From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 1c86a188e03156223a34d09ce290b49bd4dd0403 upstream. The variable kfence_metadata is initialized in kfence_init_pool(), then, it is not initialized if kfence is disabled after booting. In this case, kfence_metadata will be used (e.g. ->lock and ->state fields) without initialization when reading /sys/kernel/debug/kfence/objects. There will be a warning if you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK. Fix it by creating debugfs files when necessary. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315034441.44321-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 0ce20dd84089 ("mm: add Kernel Electric-Fence infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: SeongJae Park <sjpark@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/kfence/core.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/kfence/core.c +++ b/mm/kfence/core.c @@ -727,10 +727,14 @@ static const struct seq_operations objec }; DEFINE_SEQ_ATTRIBUTE(objects); -static int __init kfence_debugfs_init(void) +static int kfence_debugfs_init(void) { - struct dentry *kfence_dir = debugfs_create_dir("kfence", NULL); + struct dentry *kfence_dir; + if (!READ_ONCE(kfence_enabled)) + return 0; + + kfence_dir = debugfs_create_dir("kfence", NULL); debugfs_create_file("stats", 0444, kfence_dir, NULL, &stats_fops); debugfs_create_file("objects", 0400, kfence_dir, NULL, &objects_fops); return 0; @@ -893,6 +897,8 @@ static int kfence_init_late(void) } kfence_init_enable(); + kfence_debugfs_init(); + return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.1/mm-kfence-fix-using-kfence_metadata-without-initialization-in-show_object.patch