[PATCH] kasan: fix quarantine_size accounting during cache removal
From: Hui Su
Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 03:37:06 EST
quarantine_size tracks the total number of bytes stored in
global_quarantine[]. It is incremented when per-CPU quarantine objects
are moved into the global quarantine and decremented when a global
batch is evicted by kasan_quarantine_reduce().
kasan_quarantine_remove_cache() also removes objects from the global
quarantine. qlist_move_cache() rebuilds the source batch and updates
its .bytes field, but quarantine_size is not adjusted accordingly.
As a result, quarantine_size remains over-counted by the size of the
removed objects. The stale accounting accumulates across cache removals.
Once the inflated value exceeds quarantine_max_size,
kasan_quarantine_reduce() can evict a batch even though the actual
number of bytes in global_quarantine[] is still below
quarantine_max_size, shortening the quarantine window.
Fix the accounting by recording each batch's size before
qlist_move_cache() and subtracting the number of bytes actually removed
from quarantine_size while holding quarantine_lock.
A KUnit reproducer used during testing observed the over-count grow by
4698864 bytes after one kasan_quarantine_remove_cache() call with the
fix reverted. With this change applied, the over-count did not grow.
Fixes: 64abdcb24351 ("kasan: eliminate long stalls during quarantine reduction")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260808031459.3032812-1-sh_def%40163.com
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/kasan/quarantine.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
index 6958aa713c67..c220f0d8ddd0 100644
--- a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
@@ -365,9 +365,14 @@ void kasan_quarantine_remove_cache(struct kmem_cache *cache)
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&quarantine_lock, flags);
for (i = 0; i < QUARANTINE_BATCHES; i++) {
+ size_t old_bytes;
+
if (qlist_empty(&global_quarantine[i]))
continue;
+ old_bytes = global_quarantine[i].bytes;
qlist_move_cache(&global_quarantine[i], &to_free, cache);
+ WRITE_ONCE(quarantine_size, quarantine_size -
+ (old_bytes - global_quarantine[i].bytes));
/* Scanning whole quarantine can take a while. */
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&quarantine_lock, flags);
cond_resched();
base-commit: d58772d8520c7ef247c4b95c9bd76d3a25da9ff5
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2.43.0