mm: fix possible deadlock in kmemleak
commit c873ccbb upstream. There are some AA deadlock issues in kmemleak, similar to the situation reported by Breno [1]. The deadlock path is as follows: mem_pool_alloc() -> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags); -> pr_warn() -> netconsole subsystem -> netpoll -> __alloc_skb -> __create_object -> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags); To solve this problem, switch to printk_safe mode before printing warning message, this will redirect all printk()-s to a special per-CPU buffer, which will be flushed later from a safe context (irq work), and this deadlock problem can be avoided. The proper API to use should be printk_deferred_enter()/printk_deferred_exit() [2]. Another way is to place the warn print after kmemleak is released. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822073541.1886469-1-gubowen5@huawei.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250731-kmemleak_lock-v1-1-728fd470198f@debian.org/#t [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5ca375cd-4a20-4807-b897-68b289626550@redhat.com/ [2] Signed-off-by:Gu Bowen <gubowen5@huawei.com> Reviewed-by:
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by:
Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Cc: Lu Jialin <lujialin4@huawei.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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