[PATCH] mm/shrinker: fix bogus set_shrinker_bit() with cgroup.memory=nokmem
From: Jiayuan Chen
Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 03:38:32 EST
With cgroup.memory=nokmem, shrinker_memcg_alloc() bails out early and
never allocates an id, so shrinker->id keeps the 0 it got from the
kzalloc() in shrinker_alloc(). __list_lru_init() then copies that 0
into lru->shrinker_id, where it looks like a valid bit index.
Nothing calls expand_shrinker_info() on nokmem either, so
shrinker_nr_max stays 0 and every memcg ends up with an empty map
(map_nr_max == 0).
deferred_split_folio() hands a real memcg to __list_lru_add()
regardless of whether the lru is memcg aware, so the first THP queued
in a cgroup does set_shrinker_bit(memcg, nid, 0) and trips the bounds
check:
WARNING: mm/shrinker.c:212 at set_shrinker_bit+0x7d/0x90, CPU#126
Call Trace:
<TASK>
deferred_split_folio+0x18c/0x220
map_anon_folio_pmd_nopf+0xdd/0x130
map_anon_folio_pmd_pf+0x14/0xb0
do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x1a1/0x620
__handle_mm_fault+0xea9/0x10d0
handle_mm_fault+0xe5/0x320
do_user_addr_fault+0x1cc/0x870
exc_page_fault+0x81/0x1b0
asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
</TASK>
Harmless, the WARN_ON_ONCE() is what keeps the out of bounds unit[]
read from happening, but the id should not look valid in the first
place. Clear it before returning.
Two other spots could paper over this: drop the id in
__list_lru_init() when nokmem turns memcg_aware off, or make
deferred_split_folio() pass NULL like list_lru_add_obj() does. Both
leave shrinker->id lying around for the next caller, so fix it where
the id is handed out.
Fixes: fafaeceb89a5 ("mm: switch deferred split shrinker to list_lru")
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shrinker.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/shrinker.c b/mm/shrinker.c
index a70aab124a0e..7ec2a9704f6f 100644
--- a/mm/shrinker.c
+++ b/mm/shrinker.c
@@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ static int shrinker_memcg_alloc(struct shrinker *shrinker)
{
int id;
+ shrinker->id = -1;
+
if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
return -ENOSYS;
if (mem_cgroup_kmem_disabled() && !(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NONSLAB))
--
2.43.0