[PATCH v1 net] ref_tracker: Don't use __GFP_NOFAIL for PF_MEMALLOC thread.
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From: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Date: 2026-09-30 22:01:39
Subsystem:
library code, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds
Queued in net-next as 071876fd5048 on 2026-10-02.
syzbot triggered a warning in __alloc_pages_slowpath(). [0]
ref_tracker_alloc() uses __GFP_NOFAIL if the passed gfp has
__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM.
However, cifs_demultiplex_thread() calls memalloc_noreclaim_save()
and its kthread has PF_MEMALLOC.
As commented in __alloc_pages_slowpath(), __GFP_NOFAIL should
not be used for PF_MEMALLOC thread.
if (unlikely(nofail)) {
...
/*
* PF_MEMALLOC request from this context is rather bizarre
* because we cannot reclaim anything and only can loop waiting
* for somebody to do a work for us.
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC);
Let's avoid using __GFP_NOFAIL for PF_MEMALLOC thread.
[0]:
current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC
WARNING: mm/page_alloc.c:4816 at __alloc_pages_slowpath mm/page_alloc.c:4816 [inline], CPU#0: cifsd/12032
WARNING: mm/page_alloc.c:4816 at __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x1eac/0x3300 mm/page_alloc.c:5449, CPU#0: cifsd/12032
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 12032 Comm: cifsd Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages_slowpath mm/page_alloc.c:4816 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x1eac/0x3300 mm/page_alloc.c:5449
Code: 38 d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 de 12 00 00 65 48 8b 05 e2 a7 1c 12 c7 84 24 94 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 f6 40 2d 08 0f 84 ba e7 ff ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 b1 e7 ff ff 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 c1 ea 03
RSP: 0000:ffffc90002e172d0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: ffff888029380000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 1ffff1100fffad29
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffff88803fffd938
RBP: ffff88802938002c R08: 0000000000008000 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000000cac40
R13: ffff88803fffb900 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 1ffff920005c2e74
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888096955000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000008000a000 CR3: 00000000403b5000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:3347 [inline]
allocate_slab mm/slub.c:3470 [inline]
new_slab+0x1f6/0x6e0 mm/slub.c:3513
refill_objects+0xe3/0x410 mm/slub.c:7417
refill_sheaf mm/slub.c:2885 [inline]
__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x35e/0x650 mm/slub.c:4774
alloc_from_pcs mm/slub.c:4850 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4984 [inline]
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x4f4/0x6d0 mm/slub.c:5559
_kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:991 [inline]
_kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1312 [inline]
ref_tracker_alloc+0x190/0x590 lib/ref_tracker.c:270
__netns_tracker_alloc include/net/net_namespace.h:370 [inline]
sk_alloc+0xcfc/0xe80 net/core/sock.c:2329
inet_create net/ipv4/af_inet.c:333 [inline]
inet_create+0x3a0/0x1060 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:259
__sock_create+0x339/0x860 net/socket.c:1676
generic_ip_connect+0x826/0x1810 fs/smb/client/connect.c:3377
__cifs_reconnect+0x348/0xa80 fs/smb/client/connect.c:420
_cifs_reconnect fs/smb/client/connect.c:596 [inline]
cifs_reconnect fs/smb/client/connect.c:610 [inline]
cifs_readv_from_socket+0x7c1/0xa30 fs/smb/client/connect.c:749
cifs_read_from_socket+0xb8/0x100 fs/smb/client/connect.c:804
cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x2db/0x2ea0 fs/smb/client/connect.c:1295
kthread+0x373/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:436
ret_from_fork+0x730/0xd60 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
Fixes: 4e66934eaadc ("lib: add reference counting tracking infrastructure")
Reported-by: syzbot+f95c2f0a71a98cef50eb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/6abd860c.9b478af7.e8d7a.0000.GAE@google.com/ (local)
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
---
lib/ref_tracker.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/ref_tracker.c b/lib/ref_tracker.c
index 30c999d57b10..5f63206357b2 100644
--- a/lib/ref_tracker.c
+++ b/lib/ref_tracker.c@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ int ref_tracker_alloc(struct ref_tracker_dir *dir, refcount_inc(&dir->no_tracker); return 0; } - if (gfp & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) + if ((gfp & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM) && !(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC)) gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOFAIL; *trackerp = tracker = kzalloc_obj(*tracker, gfp_mask); if (unlikely(!tracker)) {
--
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