[PATCH] mm/kmemleak: allow __GFP_NOLOCKDEP passed to kmemleak's gfp

From: Naohiro Aota
Date: Tue Sep 07 2021 - 01:57:42 EST


In a memory pressure situation, I'm seeing the lockdep WARNING below.
Actually, this is similar to a known false positive which is already
addressed by commit 6dcde60efd94 ("xfs: more lockdep whackamole with
kmem_alloc*").

This warning still persists because it's not from kmalloc() itself but
from an allocation for kmemleak object. While kmalloc() itself suppress
the warning with __GFP_NOLOCKDEP, gfp_kmemleak_mask() is dropping the
flag for the kmemleak's allocation.

Allow __GFP_NOLOCKDEP to be passed to kmemleak's allocation, so that the
warning for it is also suppressed.

======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
5.14.0-rc7-BTRFS-ZNS+ #37 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
kswapd0/288 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff88825ab45df0 (&xfs_nondir_ilock_class){++++}-{3:3}, at: xfs_ilock+0x8a/0x250

but task is already holding lock:
ffffffff848cc1e0 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x5/0x30

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}:
fs_reclaim_acquire+0x112/0x160
kmem_cache_alloc+0x48/0x400
create_object.isra.0+0x42/0xb10
kmemleak_alloc+0x48/0x80
__kmalloc+0x228/0x440
kmem_alloc+0xd3/0x2b0
kmem_alloc_large+0x5a/0x1c0
xfs_attr_copy_value+0x112/0x190
xfs_attr_shortform_getvalue+0x1fc/0x300
xfs_attr_get_ilocked+0x125/0x170
xfs_attr_get+0x329/0x450
xfs_get_acl+0x18d/0x430
get_acl.part.0+0xb6/0x1e0
posix_acl_xattr_get+0x13a/0x230
vfs_getxattr+0x21d/0x270
getxattr+0x126/0x310
__x64_sys_fgetxattr+0x1a6/0x2a0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

-> #0 (&xfs_nondir_ilock_class){++++}-{3:3}:
__lock_acquire+0x2c0f/0x5a00
lock_acquire+0x1a1/0x4b0
down_read_nested+0x50/0x90
xfs_ilock+0x8a/0x250
xfs_can_free_eofblocks+0x34f/0x570
xfs_inactive+0x411/0x520
xfs_fs_destroy_inode+0x2c8/0x710
destroy_inode+0xc5/0x1a0
evict+0x444/0x620
dispose_list+0xfe/0x1c0
prune_icache_sb+0xdc/0x160
super_cache_scan+0x31e/0x510
do_shrink_slab+0x337/0x8e0
shrink_slab+0x362/0x5c0
shrink_node+0x7a7/0x1a40
balance_pgdat+0x64e/0xfe0
kswapd+0x590/0xa80
kthread+0x38c/0x460
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(fs_reclaim);
lock(&xfs_nondir_ilock_class);
lock(fs_reclaim);
lock(&xfs_nondir_ilock_class);

*** DEADLOCK ***
3 locks held by kswapd0/288:
#0: ffffffff848cc1e0 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x5/0x30
#1: ffffffff848a08d8 (shrinker_rwsem){++++}-{3:3}, at: shrink_slab+0x269/0x5c0
#2: ffff8881a7a820e8 (&type->s_umount_key#60){++++}-{3:3}, at: super_cache_scan+0x5a/0x510

Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/kmemleak.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 73d46d16d575..1f4868cbba22 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@
#define BYTES_PER_POINTER sizeof(void *)

/* GFP bitmask for kmemleak internal allocations */
-#define gfp_kmemleak_mask(gfp) (((gfp) & (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC)) | \
+#define gfp_kmemleak_mask(gfp) (((gfp) & (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC | \
+ __GFP_NOLOCKDEP)) | \
__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | \
__GFP_NOWARN)

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