The patch titled Subject: mm: fix possible deadlock in console_trylock_spinning has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-fix-possible-deadlock-in-console_trylock_spinning.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Gu Bowen gubowen5@huawei.com Subject: mm: fix possible deadlock in console_trylock_spinning Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:49:14 +0800
kmemleak_scan_thread() invokes scan_block() which may invoke a nomal printk() to print warning message. This can cause a deadlock in the scenario reported below:
CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(kmemleak_lock); lock(&port->lock); lock(kmemleak_lock); lock(console_owner);
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.
Our syztester report the following lockdep error:
====================================================== WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 5.10.0-22221-gca646a51dd00 #16 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ kmemleak/182 is trying to acquire lock: ffffffffaf9e9020 (console_owner){-...}-{0:0}, at: console_trylock_spinning+0xda/0x1d0 kernel/printk/printk.c:1900
but task is already holding lock: ffffffffb007cf58 (kmemleak_lock){-.-.}-{2:2}, at: scan_block+0x3d/0x220 mm/kmemleak.c:1310
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
-> #3 (kmemleak_lock){-.-.}-{2:2}: validate_chain+0x5df/0xac0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3729 __lock_acquire+0x514/0x940 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4958 lock_acquire+0x15a/0x3a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5569 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3b/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:164 create_object.isra.0+0x36/0x80 mm/kmemleak.c:691 kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:43 [inline] slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:518 [inline] slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:2987 [inline] slab_alloc mm/slub.c:2995 [inline] __kmalloc+0x637/0xb60 mm/slub.c:4100 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:620 [inline] tty_buffer_alloc+0x127/0x140 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:176 __tty_buffer_request_room+0x9b/0x110 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:276 tty_insert_flip_string_fixed_flag+0x60/0x130 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:321 tty_insert_flip_string include/linux/tty_flip.h:36 [inline] tty_insert_flip_string_and_push_buffer+0x3a/0xb0 drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c:578 process_output_block+0xc2/0x2e0 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:592 n_tty_write+0x298/0x540 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2433 do_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1041 [inline] file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x29b/0x4b0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1147 redirected_tty_write+0x51/0x90 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1176 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2117 [inline] do_iter_readv_writev+0x274/0x350 fs/read_write.c:741 do_iter_write+0xbb/0x1f0 fs/read_write.c:867 vfs_writev+0xfa/0x380 fs/read_write.c:940 do_writev+0xd6/0x1d0 fs/read_write.c:983 do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0xd6
-> #2 (&port->lock){-.-.}-{2:2}: validate_chain+0x5df/0xac0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3729 __lock_acquire+0x514/0x940 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4958 lock_acquire+0x15a/0x3a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5569 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3b/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:164 tty_port_tty_get+0x1f/0xa0 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:289 tty_port_default_wakeup+0xb/0x30 drivers/tty/tty_port.c:48 serial8250_tx_chars+0x259/0x430 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1906 __start_tx drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1598 [inline] serial8250_start_tx+0x304/0x320 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:1720 uart_write+0x1a1/0x2e0 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c:635 do_output_char+0x2c0/0x370 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:444 process_output drivers/tty/n_tty.c:511 [inline] n_tty_write+0x269/0x540 drivers/tty/n_tty.c:2445 do_tty_write drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1041 [inline] file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x29b/0x4b0 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1147 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2117 [inline] do_iter_readv_writev+0x274/0x350 fs/read_write.c:741 do_iter_write+0xbb/0x1f0 fs/read_write.c:867 vfs_writev+0xfa/0x380 fs/read_write.c:940 do_writev+0xd6/0x1d0 fs/read_write.c:983 do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0xd6
-> #1 (&port_lock_key){-.-.}-{2:2}: validate_chain+0x5df/0xac0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3729 __lock_acquire+0x514/0x940 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4958 lock_acquire+0x15a/0x3a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5569 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3b/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:164 serial8250_console_write+0x292/0x320 drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c:3458 call_console_drivers.constprop.0+0x185/0x240 kernel/printk/printk.c:1988 console_unlock+0x2b4/0x640 kernel/printk/printk.c:2648 register_console.part.0+0x2a1/0x390 kernel/printk/printk.c:3024 univ8250_console_init+0x24/0x2b drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c:724 console_init+0x188/0x24b kernel/printk/printk.c:3134 start_kernel+0x2b0/0x41e init/main.c:1072 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xc3/0xcb
-> #0 (console_owner){-...}-{0:0}: check_prev_add+0xfa/0x1380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:2988 check_prevs_add+0x1d8/0x3c0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3113 validate_chain+0x5df/0xac0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3729 __lock_acquire+0x514/0x940 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4958 lock_acquire+0x15a/0x3a0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5569 console_trylock_spinning+0x10d/0x1d0 kernel/printk/printk.c:1921 vprintk_emit+0x1a5/0x270 kernel/printk/printk.c:2134 printk+0xb2/0xe7 kernel/printk/printk.c:2183 lookup_object.cold+0xf/0x24 mm/kmemleak.c:405 scan_block+0x1fa/0x220 mm/kmemleak.c:1357 scan_object+0xdd/0x140 mm/kmemleak.c:1415 scan_gray_list+0x8f/0x1c0 mm/kmemleak.c:1453 kmemleak_scan+0x649/0xf30 mm/kmemleak.c:1608 kmemleak_scan_thread+0x94/0xb6 mm/kmemleak.c:1721 kthread+0x1c4/0x210 kernel/kthread.c:328 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:299
other info that might help us debug this:
Chain exists of: console_owner --> &port->lock --> kmemleak_lock
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250730094914.566582-1-gubowen5@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Gu Bowen gubowen5@huawei.com Cc: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Cc: Lu Jialin lujialin4@huawei.com Cc: Waiman Long longman@redhat.com Cc: Breno Leitao leitao@debian.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [5.10+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/kmemleak.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c~mm-fix-possible-deadlock-in-console_trylock_spinning +++ a/mm/kmemleak.c @@ -437,9 +437,11 @@ static struct kmemleak_object *__lookup_ else if (untagged_objp == untagged_ptr || alias) return object; else { + __printk_safe_enter(); kmemleak_warn("Found object by alias at 0x%08lx\n", ptr); dump_object_info(object); + __printk_safe_exit(); break; } } _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from gubowen5@huawei.com are
mm-fix-possible-deadlock-in-console_trylock_spinning.patch