patches/old/mm-kmemleak-prevent-soft-lockup-in-first-object-iteration-loop-of-kmemleak_scan.patch

From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: mm/kmemleak: prevent soft lockup in first object iteration loop of kmemleak_scan()
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 18:03:59 -0400

The first RCU-based object iteration loop has to modify the object count. 
So we cannot skip taking the object lock.

One way to avoid soft lockup is to insert occasional cond_resched() call
into the loop.  This cannot be done while holding the RCU read lock which
is to protect objects from being freed.  However, taking a reference to
the object will prevent it from being freed.  We can then do a
cond_resched() call after every 64k objects safely.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220614220359.59282-4-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/kmemleak.c |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/kmemleak.c~mm-kmemleak-prevent-soft-lockup-in-first-object-iteration-loop-of-kmemleak_scan
+++ a/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1474,12 +1474,16 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
 	struct zone *zone;
 	int __maybe_unused i;
 	int new_leaks = 0;
+	int loop1_cnt = 0;
 
 	jiffies_last_scan = jiffies;
 
 	/* prepare the kmemleak_object's */
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	list_for_each_entry_rcu(object, &object_list, object_list) {
+		bool obj_pinned = false;
+
+		loop1_cnt++;
 		raw_spin_lock_irq(&object->lock);
 #ifdef DEBUG
 		/*
@@ -1505,10 +1509,32 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
 
 		/* reset the reference count (whiten the object) */
 		object->count = 0;
-		if (color_gray(object) && get_object(object))
+		if (color_gray(object) && get_object(object)) {
 			list_add_tail(&object->gray_list, &gray_list);
+			obj_pinned = true;
+		}
 
 		raw_spin_unlock_irq(&object->lock);
+
+		/*
+		 * Do a cond_resched() to avoid soft lockup every 64k objects.
+		 * Make sure a reference has been taken so that the object
+		 * won't go away without RCU read lock.
+		 */
+		if (!(loop1_cnt & 0xffff)) {
+			if (!obj_pinned && !get_object(object)) {
+				/* Try the next object instead */
+				loop1_cnt--;
+				continue;
+			}
+
+			rcu_read_unlock();
+			cond_resched();
+			rcu_read_lock();
+
+			if (!obj_pinned)
+				put_object(object);
+		}
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
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