[syzbot ci] Re: improve per-node allocation and reclaim visibility

From: syzbot ci

Date: Thu Feb 12 2026 - 13:08:55 EST


syzbot ci has tested the following series

[v1] improve per-node allocation and reclaim visibility
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260212045109.255391-1-inwardvessel@xxxxxxxxx
* [PATCH 1/2] mm/mempolicy: track page allocations per mempolicy
* [PATCH 2/2] mm: move pgscan and pgsteal to node stats

and found the following issue:
WARNING in __mod_node_page_state

Full report is available here:
https://ci.syzbot.org/series/4ec12ede-3298-43a3-ab6b-79d47759672e

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WARNING in __mod_node_page_state

tree: mm-new
URL: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git
base: 72a46cdd4ef13690beb8c5a2f6a2023fd7ef2eb4
arch: amd64
compiler: Debian clang version 21.1.8 (++20251221033036+2078da43e25a-1~exp1~20251221153213.50), Debian LLD 21.1.8
config: https://ci.syzbot.org/builds/0f678e4c-a4ba-4f17-8ed7-8ae99e56a463/config

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IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT) && __lockdep_enabled && (preempt_count() == 0 && this_cpu_read(hardirqs_enabled))
WARNING: mm/vmstat.c:396 at __mod_node_page_state+0x126/0x170, CPU#0: kthreadd/2
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__mod_node_page_state+0x126/0x170
Code: 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 48 89 df 4c 89 e6 44 89 fa e8 68 00 00 00 31 db eb cc 90 0f 0b 90 e9 3e ff ff ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb 80 48 c7 c7 e0 c6 64 8e 4c 89 f6 e8 66 3c d3 02 e9 28
RSP: 0000:ffffc900000773d0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000000003d RDI: ffff88815fffb380
RBP: dffffc0000000000 R08: ffffffff8fef2977 R09: 1ffffffff1fde52e
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1fde52f R12: ffff88815fffb380
R13: ffffffff92f50f00 R14: 000000000000003d R15: 000000000000003d
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88818e0f0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff88823ffff000 CR3: 000000000e346000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
alloc_pages_mpol+0x407/0x740
alloc_pages_noprof+0xa8/0x190
get_free_pages_noprof+0xf/0x80
__kasan_populate_vmalloc+0x38/0x1d0
alloc_vmap_area+0xd21/0x1460
__get_vm_area_node+0x1f8/0x300
__vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x372/0x1730
__vmalloc_node_noprof+0xc2/0x100
dup_task_struct+0x228/0x9a0
copy_process+0x508/0x3980
kernel_clone+0x248/0x870
kernel_thread+0x13f/0x1b0
kthreadd+0x4f9/0x6f0
ret_from_fork+0x51b/0xa40
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>


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