[PATCH] ref_tracker: add stack_depot_save() failure handling to ref_tracker_alloc()

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Sat May 27 2023 - 07:07:13 EST


stack_depot_save() cannot accept __GFP_NOFAIL flag because
__stack_depot_save() drops gfp flags which are not in
GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN. Also, changing
__stack_depot_save() to accept __GFP_NOFAIL is not possible
because rmqueue() does not want __GFP_NOFAIL flag for
order == DEPOT_POOL_ORDER allocation request.

Therefore, assume that stack_depot_save(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL) from
ref_tracker_alloc() can silently fail, and emit "unreliable refcount
tracker." message.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/ref_tracker.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ref_tracker.c b/lib/ref_tracker.c
index dc7b14aa3431..ad48ff19adb2 100644
--- a/lib/ref_tracker.c
+++ b/lib/ref_tracker.c
@@ -84,12 +84,18 @@ int ref_tracker_alloc(struct ref_tracker_dir *dir,
gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
*trackerp = tracker = kzalloc(sizeof(*tracker), gfp_mask);
if (unlikely(!tracker)) {
+nomem:
pr_err_once("memory allocation failure, unreliable refcount tracker.\n");
refcount_inc(&dir->untracked);
return -ENOMEM;
}
nr_entries = stack_trace_save(entries, ARRAY_SIZE(entries), 1);
tracker->alloc_stack_handle = stack_depot_save(entries, nr_entries, gfp);
+ if (!tracker->alloc_stack_handle) {
+ *trackerp = NULL;
+ kfree(tracker);
+ goto nomem;
+ }

spin_lock_irqsave(&dir->lock, flags);
list_add(&tracker->head, &dir->list);
--
2.18.4