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Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:58:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from LilGuy ([2409:40c2:1162:1559:f712:85ce:d14f:d48c]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-2a2f3c839b7sm16474475ad.37.2025.12.19.00.58.07 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:58:12 -0800 (PST) From: Swaraj Gaikwad To: Vlastimil Babka , Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Roman Gushchin , Harry Yoo , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Clark Williams , Steven Rostedt , Alexei Starovoitov , linux-mm@kvack.org (open list:SLAB ALLOCATOR), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list), linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev (open list:Real-time Linux (PREEMPT_RT):Keyword:PREEMPT_RT) Cc: skhan@linuxfoundation.org, david.hunter.linux@gmail.com, Swaraj Gaikwad , syzbot+b1546ad4a95331b2101e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Subject: [PATCH] slab: fix kmalloc_nolock() context check for PREEMPT_RT Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:27:54 +0530 Message-ID: <20251219085755.139846-1-swarajgaikwad1925@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On PREEMPT_RT kernels, local_lock becomes a sleeping lock. The current check in kmalloc_nolock() only verifies we're not in NMI or hard IRQ context, but misses the case where preemption is disabled. When a BPF program runs from a tracepoint with preemption disabled (preempt_count > 0), kmalloc_nolock() proceeds to call local_lock_irqsave() which attempts to acquire a sleeping lock, triggering: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 6128 preempt_count: 2, expected: 0 Fix this by also checking preempt_count() on PREEMPT_RT, ensuring kmalloc_nolock() returns NULL early when called from any non-preemptible context. Fixes: af92793e52c3 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().") Reported-by: syzbot+b1546ad4a95331b2101e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3Db1546ad4a95331b2101e Signed-off-by: Swaraj Gaikwad --- Tested by building with syz config and running the syzbot reproducer - kernel no longer crashes. mm/slub.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 2acce22590f8..1dd8a25664c5 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -5689,8 +5689,12 @@ void *kmalloc_nolock_noprof(size_t size, gfp_t gfp_f= lags, int node) if (unlikely(!size)) return ZERO_SIZE_PTR; - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && (in_nmi() || in_hardirq())) - /* kmalloc_nolock() in PREEMPT_RT is not supported from irq */ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && (in_nmi() || in_hardirq() || preempt= _count() )) + /* + * kmalloc_nolock() in PREEMPT_RT is not supported from + * non-preemptible context because local_lock becomes a + * sleeping lock on RT. + */ return NULL; retry: if (unlikely(size > KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE)) base-commit: 559e608c46553c107dbba19dae0854af7b219400 -- 2.52.0