kernel/linux.git/mm/shrinker_debug.c, branch v6.1.186

mm: shrinker: fix NULL pointer dereference in debugfs

2026-07-24T13:55:14+00:00

[ Upstream commit e30453c61e185e914fde83c650e268067b140218 ] shrinker_debugfs_add() creates both "count" and "scan" debugfs files unconditionally. That assumes every shrinker implements both count_objects() and scan_objects(), which is not guaranteed. For example, the xen-backend shrinker sets count_objects() but leaves scan_objects() NULL, so writing to its scan file calls through a NULL function pointer and panics the kernel: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 RIP: 0010:0x0 Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6. Call Trace: shrinker_debugfs_scan_write+0x12e/0x270 full_proxy_write+0x5f/0x90 vfs_write+0xde/0x420 ? filp_flush+0x75/0x90 ? filp_close+0x1d/0x30 ? do_dup2+0xb8/0x120 ksys_write+0x68/0xf0 ? filp_flush+0x75/0x90 do_syscall_64+0xb3/0x5b0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e The count path has the same issue in principle if a shrinker omits count_objects(). To fix it, only create "count" and "scan" debugfs files when the corresponding callbacks are present. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260617090052.27325-1-qi.zheng@linux.dev Fixes: bbf535fd6f06 ("mm: shrinkers: add scan interface for shrinker debugfs") Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Reviewed-by: Muchun Song Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions

2026-07-24T13:55:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2124f79de6a909630d1a62b01ecc32db9f967181 ] The permissions for the files here are swapped as "count" is read-only and "scan" is write-only. While this doesn't really matter as these permissions don't stop the files being opened for reading/writing as appropriate, they are shown by "ls -l" and are confusing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230418101906.3131303-1-john@metanate.com Signed-off-by: John Keeping Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Stable-dep-of: e30453c61e18 ("mm: shrinker: fix NULL pointer dereference in debugfs") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()

2026-07-24T13:55:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit b902890c62d200b3509cb5e09cf1e0a66553c128 ] Reading the debugfs "count" file of a memcg-aware shrinker can sleep inside an RCU read-side critical section: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:421 RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0 css_rstat_flush mem_cgroup_flush_stats zswap_shrinker_count shrinker_debugfs_count_show shrinker_debugfs_count_show() invokes the ->count_objects() callback under rcu_read_lock(). The zswap callback flushes memcg stats via css_rstat_flush(), which may sleep, so it must not run under RCU. The RCU lock is not needed here. mem_cgroup_iter() takes RCU internally and returns a memcg holding a css reference (dropped on the next iteration or by mem_cgroup_iter_break()), so the memcg stays alive without it. The shrinker is kept alive by the open debugfs file: shrinker_free() removes the debugfs entries via debugfs_remove_recursive(), which waits for in-flight readers to drain, before call_rcu(..., shrinker_free_rcu_cb). The sibling "scan" handler already invokes the sleeping ->scan_objects() callback with no RCU section. Drop the rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260610232048.62930-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Fixes: 5035ebc644ae ("mm: shrinkers: introduce debugfs interface for memory shrinkers") Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt Reported-by: Zenghui Yu Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c052a064-cddb-494f-a0d8-f8a10b4b1c4d@linux.dev/ Suggested-by: Nhat Pham Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park Reviewed-by: Qi Zheng Tested-by: Zenghui Yu (Huawei) Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham Acked-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: shrinker: remove redundant shrinker_rwsem in debugfs operations

2026-07-24T13:55:13+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1dd49e58f966b1eecd935dc28458a8369ae94ad1 ] debugfs_remove_recursive() will wait for debugfs_file_put() to return, so the shrinker will not be freed when doing debugfs operations (such as shrinker_debugfs_count_show() and shrinker_debugfs_scan_write()), so there is no need to hold shrinker_rwsem during debugfs operations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911092517.64141-4-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Reviewed-by: Muchun Song Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Christian König Cc: Chuck Lever Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: Darrick J. Wong Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Steven Price Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Abhinav Kumar Cc: Alasdair Kergon Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Alyssa Rosenzweig Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Bob Peterson Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Carlos Llamas Cc: Chandan Babu R Cc: Chao Yu Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Coly Li Cc: Dai Ngo Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Airlie Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Sterba Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov Cc: Gao Xiang Cc: Huang Rui Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jaegeuk Kim Cc: Jani Nikula Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jason Wang Cc: Jeff Layton Cc: Jeffle Xu Cc: Joonas Lahtinen Cc: Josef Bacik Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Marijn Suijten Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Mike Snitzer Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko Cc: Olga Kornievskaia Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Rob Clark Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Rodrigo Vivi Cc: Sean Paul Cc: Song Liu Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Tomeu Vizoso Cc: Tom Talpey Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin Cc: Xuan Zhuo Cc: Yue Hu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Stable-dep-of: b902890c62d2 ("mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: shrinkers: fix deadlock in shrinker debugfs

2023-02-22T11:59:46+00:00

commit badc28d4924bfed73efc93f716a0c3aa3afbdf6f upstream. The debugfs_remove_recursive() is invoked by unregister_shrinker(), which is holding the write lock of shrinker_rwsem. It will waits for the handler of debugfs file complete. The handler also needs to hold the read lock of shrinker_rwsem to do something. So it may cause the following deadlock: CPU0 CPU1 debugfs_file_get() shrinker_debugfs_count_show()/shrinker_debugfs_scan_write() unregister_shrinker() --> down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); debugfs_remove_recursive() // wait for (A) --> wait_for_completion(); // wait for (B) --> down_read_killable(&shrinker_rwsem) debugfs_file_put() -- (A) up_write() -- (B) The down_read_killable() can be killed, so that the above deadlock can be recovered. But it still requires an extra kill action, otherwise it will block all subsequent shrinker-related operations, so it's better to fix it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SHRINKER_DEBUG=n stub] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230202105612.64641-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Fixes: 5035ebc644ae ("mm: shrinkers: introduce debugfs interface for memory shrinkers") Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: shrinkers: fix double kfree on shrinker name

2022-07-30T01:07:13+00:00

syzbot is reporting double kfree() at free_prealloced_shrinker() [1], for destroy_unused_super() calls free_prealloced_shrinker() even if prealloc_shrinker() returned an error. Explicitly clear shrinker name when prealloc_shrinker() called kfree(). [roman.gushchin@linux.dev: zero shrinker->name in all cases where shrinker->name is freed] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YtgteTnQTgyuKUSY@castle Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8b481578352d4637f510 [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ffa62ece-6a42-2644-16cf-0d33ef32c676@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp Fixes: e33c267ab70de424 ("mm: shrinkers: provide shrinkers with names") Reported-by: syzbot Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: shrinkers: add scan interface for shrinker debugfs

2022-07-04T01:08:41+00:00

Add a scan interface which allows to trigger scanning of a particular shrinker and specify memcg and numa node. It's useful for testing, debugging and profiling of a specific scan_objects() callback. Unlike alternatives (creating a real memory pressure and dropping caches via /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches) this interface allows to interact with only one shrinker at once. Also, if a shrinker is misreporting the number of objects (as some do), it doesn't affect scanning. [roman.gushchin@linux.dev: improve typing, fix arg count checking] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YpgKttTowT22mKPQ@carbon [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arg count checking] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220601032227.4076670-7-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Acked-by: Muchun Song Cc: Christophe JAILLET Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Kent Overstreet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: shrinkers: provide shrinkers with names

2022-07-04T01:08:40+00:00

Currently shrinkers are anonymous objects. For debugging purposes they can be identified by count/scan function names, but it's not always useful: e.g. for superblock's shrinkers it's nice to have at least an idea of to which superblock the shrinker belongs. This commit adds names to shrinkers. register_shrinker() and prealloc_shrinker() functions are extended to take a format and arguments to master a name. In some cases it's not possible to determine a good name at the time when a shrinker is allocated. For such cases shrinker_debugfs_rename() is provided. The expected format is: -[:]- For some shrinkers an instance can be encoded as (MAJOR:MINOR) pair. After this change the shrinker debugfs directory looks like: $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/shrinker/ $ ls dquota-cache-16 sb-devpts-28 sb-proc-47 sb-tmpfs-42 mm-shadow-18 sb-devtmpfs-5 sb-proc-48 sb-tmpfs-43 mm-zspool:zram0-34 sb-hugetlbfs-17 sb-pstore-31 sb-tmpfs-44 rcu-kfree-0 sb-hugetlbfs-33 sb-rootfs-2 sb-tmpfs-49 sb-aio-20 sb-iomem-12 sb-securityfs-6 sb-tracefs-13 sb-anon_inodefs-15 sb-mqueue-21 sb-selinuxfs-22 sb-xfs:vda1-36 sb-bdev-3 sb-nsfs-4 sb-sockfs-8 sb-zsmalloc-19 sb-bpf-32 sb-pipefs-14 sb-sysfs-26 thp-deferred_split-10 sb-btrfs:vda2-24 sb-proc-25 sb-tmpfs-1 thp-zero-9 sb-cgroup2-30 sb-proc-39 sb-tmpfs-27 xfs-buf:vda1-37 sb-configfs-23 sb-proc-41 sb-tmpfs-29 xfs-inodegc:vda1-38 sb-dax-11 sb-proc-45 sb-tmpfs-35 sb-debugfs-7 sb-proc-46 sb-tmpfs-40 [roman.gushchin@linux.dev: fix build warnings] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yr+ZTnLb9lJk6fJO@castle Reported-by: kernel test robot Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220601032227.4076670-4-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Christophe JAILLET Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Kent Overstreet Cc: Muchun Song Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: shrinkers: introduce debugfs interface for memory shrinkers

2022-07-04T01:08:40+00:00

This commit introduces the /sys/kernel/debug/shrinker debugfs interface which provides an ability to observe the state of individual kernel memory shrinkers. Because the feature adds some memory overhead (which shouldn't be large unless there is a huge amount of registered shrinkers), it's guarded by a config option (enabled by default). This commit introduces the "count" interface for each shrinker registered in the system. The output is in the following format: ... ... ... To reduce the size of output on machines with many thousands cgroups, if the total number of objects on all nodes is 0, the line is omitted. If the shrinker is not memcg-aware or CONFIG_MEMCG is off, 0 is printed as cgroup inode id. If the shrinker is not numa-aware, 0's are printed for all nodes except the first one. This commit gives debugfs entries simple numeric names, which are not very convenient. The following commit in the series will provide shrinkers with more meaningful names. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove WARN_ON_ONCE(), per Roman] Reported-by: syzbot+300d27c79fe6d4cbcc39@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220601032227.4076670-3-roman.gushchin@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet Acked-by: Muchun Song Cc: Christophe JAILLET Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Hillf Danton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton