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| author | Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> | 2026-06-11 02:20:48 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-06-21 21:37:36 +0300 |
| commit | b902890c62d200b3509cb5e09cf1e0a66553c128 (patch) | |
| tree | 634122c9a974b1206a214160b36b0141a8ce7af6 /scripts/Makefile.thinlto | |
| parent | cc13a7a618fe8354f16d74c06aaf9565a68e9ebd (diff) | |
| download | linux-b902890c62d200b3509cb5e09cf1e0a66553c128.tar.xz | |
mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()
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 <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reported-by: Zenghui Yu <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c052a064-cddb-494f-a0d8-f8a10b4b1c4d@linux.dev/
Suggested-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Zenghui Yu (Huawei) <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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