mm/kmemleak: avoid deadlock by moving pr_warn() outside kmemleak_lock
[ Upstream commit 47b0f6d8f0d2be4d311a49e13d2fd5f152f492b2 ] When netpoll is enabled, calling pr_warn_once() while holding kmemleak_lock in mem_pool_alloc() can cause a deadlock due to lock inversion with the netconsole subsystem. This occurs because pr_warn_once() may trigger netpoll, which eventually leads to __alloc_skb() and back into kmemleak code, attempting to reacquire kmemleak_lock. This is the path for the deadlock. mem_pool_alloc() -> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags); -> pr_warn_once() -> netconsole subsystem -> netpoll -> __alloc_skb -> __create_object -> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags); Fix this by setting a flag and issuing the pr_warn_once() after kmemleak_lock is released. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250731-kmemleak_lock-v1-1-728fd470198f@debian.org Fixes: c5665868 ("mm: kmemleak: use the memory pool for early allocations") Signed-off-by:Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Reported-by:
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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