[PATCH 2/2] mm/page_alloc: don't spin_trylock() when disallowed in free_one_page()

From: Brendan Jackman

Date: Wed Jul 15 2026 - 05:12:21 EST


__free_frozen_pages() checks can_spin_trylock() before entering into the
main free_frozen_page_commit()/free_one_page() path, but before this it
can get to free_one_page() via the !pcp_allowed_order() and
MIGRATE_ISOLATE paths.

The !pcp_allowed_order() path depends on usage by callers so might not
be possible in practice. The MIGRATE_ISOLATE path probably means kernel
crashes and privilege escalation if anyone ever did memory hotplug and
BPF tracing on a PREEMPT_RT or !SMP build.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 8c57b687e8331 ("mm, bpf: Introduce free_pages_nolock()")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260710-spin-trylock-followup-v1-0-affb5fe5ed00%40google.com?part=2
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5f9873dfccc5a..46e5ea59c71df 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1559,7 +1559,7 @@ static void free_one_page(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
unsigned long flags;

if (unlikely(fpi_flags & FPI_TRYLOCK)) {
- if (!spin_trylock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags)) {
+ if (!can_spin_trylock() || !spin_trylock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags)) {
add_page_to_zone_llist(zone, page, order);
return;
}

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