Vulnerabilities
- CVSS
- 7.8 High
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- EPSS
- 0.19%
- Risk score
- 6.9
- Published
- 2026-01-31
- Status
- Modified
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/page_alloc: prevent pcp corruption with SMP=n
The kernel test robot has reported:
BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP on CPU#0, kcompactd0/28
lock: 0xffff888807e35ef0, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: kcompactd0/28, .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 28 Comm: kcompactd0 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc5-00127-ga06157804399 #1 PREEMPT 8cc09ef94dcec767faa911515ce9e609c45db470
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:95)
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123)
dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:130)
spin_dump (kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:71)
do_raw_spin_trylock (kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:?)
_raw_spin_trylock (include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:89 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:138)
__free_frozen_pages (mm/page_alloc.c:2973)
___free_pages (mm/page_alloc.c:5295)
__free_pages (mm/page_alloc.c:5334)
tlb_remove_table_rcu (include/linux/mm.h:? include/linux/mm.h:3122 include/asm-generic/tlb.h:220 mm/mmu_gather.c:227 mm/mmu_gather.c:290)
? __cfi_tlb_remove_table_rcu (mm/mmu_gather.c:289)
? rcu_core (kernel/rcu/tree.c:?)
rcu_core (include/linux/rcupdate.h:341 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2607 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2861)
rcu_core_si (kernel/rcu/tree.c:2879)
handle_softirqs (arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:36 include/trace/events/irq.h:142 kernel/softirq.c:623)
__irq_exit_rcu (arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:36 kernel/softirq.c:725)
irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:741)
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1052)
</IRQ>
<TASK>
RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore (arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:95 include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:152 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:194)
free_pcppages_bulk (mm/page_alloc.c:1494)
drain_pages_zone (include/linux/spinlock.h:391 mm/page_alloc.c:2632)
__drain_all_pages (mm/page_alloc.c:2731)
drain_all_pages (mm/page_alloc.c:2747)
kcompactd (mm/compaction.c:3115)
kthread (kernel/kthread.c:465)
? __cfi_kcompactd (mm/compaction.c:3166)
? __cfi_kthread (kernel/kthread.c:412)
ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:164)
? __cfi_kthread (kernel/kthread.c:412)
ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:255)
</TASK>
Matthew has analyzed the report and identified that in drain_page_zone()
we are in a section protected by spin_lock(&pcp->lock) and then get an
interrupt that attempts spin_trylock() on the same lock. The code is
designed to work this way without disabling IRQs and occasionally fail the
trylock with a fallback. However, the SMP=n spinlock implementation
assumes spin_trylock() will always succeed, and thus it's normally a
no-op. Here the enabled lock debugging catches the problem, but otherwise
it could cause a corruption of the pcp structure.
The problem has been introduced by commit 574907741599 ("mm/page_alloc:
leave IRQs enabled for per-cpu page allocations"). The pcp locking scheme
recognizes the need for disabling IRQs to prevent nesting spin_trylock()
sections on SMP=n, but the need to prevent the nesting in spin_lock() has
not been recognized. Fix it by introducing local wrappers that change the
spin_lock() to spin_lock_iqsave() with SMP=n and use them in all places
that do spin_lock(&pcp->lock).
[[email protected]: add pcp_ prefix to the spin_lock_irqsave wrappers, per Steven]
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