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.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250731-kmemleak_lock-v1-1-728fd470198f@debian.... [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/5ca375cd-4a20-4807-b897-68b289626550@redhat.com/ ====================

Signed-off-by: Gu Bowen gubowen5@huawei.com --- mm/kmemleak.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c index 84265983f239..1ac56ceb29b6 100644 --- a/mm/kmemleak.c +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c @@ -437,9 +437,15 @@ static struct kmemleak_object *__lookup_object(unsigned long ptr, int alias, else if (untagged_objp == untagged_ptr || alias) return object; else { + /* + * Printk deferring due to the kmemleak_lock held. + * This is done to avoid deadlock. + */ + printk_deferred_enter(); kmemleak_warn("Found object by alias at 0x%08lx\n", ptr); dump_object_info(object); + printk_deferred_exit(); break; } } @@ -736,6 +742,11 @@ static int __link_object(struct kmemleak_object *object, unsigned long ptr, else if (untagged_objp + parent->size <= untagged_ptr) link = &parent->rb_node.rb_right; else { + /* + * Printk deferring due to the kmemleak_lock held. + * This is done to avoid deadlock. + */ + printk_deferred_enter(); kmemleak_stop("Cannot insert 0x%lx into the object search tree (overlaps existing)\n", ptr); /* @@ -743,6 +754,7 @@ static int __link_object(struct kmemleak_object *object, unsigned long ptr, * be freed while the kmemleak_lock is held. */ dump_object_info(parent); + printk_deferred_exit(); return -EEXIST; } } @@ -856,13 +868,8 @@ static void delete_object_part(unsigned long ptr, size_t size,

raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags); object = __find_and_remove_object(ptr, 1, objflags); - if (!object) { -#ifdef DEBUG - kmemleak_warn("Partially freeing unknown object at 0x%08lx (size %zu)\n", - ptr, size); -#endif + if (!object) goto unlock; - }

/* * Create one or two objects that may result from the memory block @@ -882,8 +889,14 @@ static void delete_object_part(unsigned long ptr, size_t size,

unlock: raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kmemleak_lock, flags); - if (object) + if (object) { __delete_object(object); + } else { +#ifdef DEBUG + kmemleak_warn("Partially freeing unknown object at 0x%08lx (size %zu)\n", + ptr, size); +#endif + }

out: if (object_l)