Re: CONFIG_TEST_VMALLOC=y conflict/race with alloc_tag_init

["David Wang" <00107082@163.com>]

At 2025-06-23 06:50:44, "Suren Baghdasaryan" <surenb@google.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM David Wang <00107082@163.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 02:25:37PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > for this change, we reported
>> > "[linux-next:master] [lib/test_vmalloc.c]  7fc85b92db: Mem-Info"
>> > in
>> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/202505071555.e757f1e0-lkp@intel.com/
>> >
>> > at that time, we made some tests with x86_64 config which runs well.
>> >
>> > now we noticed the commit is in mainline now.
>>
>> > the config still has expected diff with parent:
>> >
>> > --- /pkg/linux/x86_64-randconfig-161-20250614/gcc-12/7a73348e5d4715b5565a53f21c01ea7b54e46cbd/.config   2025-06-17 14:40:29.481052101 +0800
>> > +++ /pkg/linux/x86_64-randconfig-161-20250614/gcc-12/2d76e79315e403aab595d4c8830b7a46c19f0f3b/.config   2025-06-17 14:41:18.448543738 +0800
>> > @@ -7551,7 +7551,7 @@ CONFIG_TEST_IDA=m
>> >  CONFIG_TEST_MISC_MINOR=m
>> >  # CONFIG_TEST_LKM is not set
>> >  CONFIG_TEST_BITOPS=m
>> > -CONFIG_TEST_VMALLOC=m
>> > +CONFIG_TEST_VMALLOC=y
>> >  # CONFIG_TEST_BPF is not set
>> >  CONFIG_FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK=m
>> >  # CONFIG_TEST_FIRMWARE is not set
>> >
>> >
>> > then we noticed similar random issue with x86_64 randconfig this time.
>> >
>> > 7a73348e5d4715b5 2d76e79315e403aab595d4c8830
>> > ---------------- ---------------------------
>> >        fail:runs  %reproduction    fail:runs
>> >            |             |             |
>> >            :199         34%          67:200   dmesg.KASAN:null-ptr-deref_in_range[#-#]
>> >            :199         34%          67:200   dmesg.Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception
>> >            :199         34%          67:200   dmesg.Mem-Info
>> >            :199         34%          67:200   dmesg.Oops:general_protection_fault,probably_for_non-canonical_address#:#[##]SMP_KASAN
>> >            :199         34%          67:200   dmesg.RIP:down_read_trylock
>> >
>> > we don't have enough knowledge to understand the relationship between code
>> > change and the random issues. just report what we obsverved in our tests FYI.
>> >
>>
>> I think this is caused by a race between vmalloc_test_init and alloc_tag_init.
>>
>> vmalloc_test actually depends on alloc_tag via alloc_tag_top_users, because when
>> memory allocation fails show_mem() would invoke alloc_tag_top_users.
>>
>> With following configuration:
>>
>> CONFIG_TEST_VMALLOC=y
>> CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING=y
>> CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT=y
>> CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y
>>
>> If vmalloc_test_init starts before alloc_tag_init, show_mem() would cause
>> a NULL deference because alloc_tag_cttype was not init yet.
>>
>> I add some debug to confirm this theory
>> diff --git a/lib/alloc_tag.c b/lib/alloc_tag.c
>> index d48b80f3f007..9b8e7501010f 100644
>> --- a/lib/alloc_tag.c
>> +++ b/lib/alloc_tag.c
>> @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ size_t alloc_tag_top_users(struct codetag_bytes *tags, size_t count, bool can_sl
>>         struct codetag *ct;
>>         struct codetag_bytes n;
>>         unsigned int i, nr = 0;
>> +       pr_info("memory profiling alloc top %d: %llx\n", mem_profiling_support, (long long)alloc_tag_cttype);
>> +       return 0;
>>
>>         if (can_sleep)
>>                 codetag_lock_module_list(alloc_tag_cttype, true);
>> @@ -831,6 +833,7 @@ static int __init alloc_tag_init(void)
>>                 shutdown_mem_profiling(true);
>>                 return PTR_ERR(alloc_tag_cttype);
>>         }
>> +       pr_info("memory profiling ready %d: %llx\n", mem_profiling_support, (long long)alloc_tag_cttype);
>>
>>         return 0;
>>  }
>>
>> When bootup the kernel, the log shows:
>>
>> $ sudo dmesg -T | grep profiling
>> [Fri Jun 20 17:29:35 2025] memory profiling alloc top 1: 0  <--- alloc_tag_cttype == NULL
>> [Fri Jun 20 17:30:24 2025] memory profiling ready 1: ffff9b1641aa06c0
>>
>>
>> vmalloc_test_init should happened after alloc_tag_init if CONFIG_TEST_VMALLOC=y,
>> or mem_show() should check whether alloc_tag is done initialized when calling
>> alloc_tag_top_users
>
>Thanks for reporting!
>So, IIUC https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250620195305.1115151-1-harry.yoo@oracle.com/
>will address this issue as well. Is that correct?

Yes, the panic can be fix by that patch.

I still feel it better to delay vmalloc_test_init, make it happen after alloc_tag_init.
Or, maybe we can promote alloc_tag_init to some early init? I remember reporting some allocation
not registered by memory profiling during boot,  
https://lore.kernel.org/all/213ff7d2.7c6c.1945eb0c2ff.Coremail.00107082@163.com/

I will make some tests, and update later


David


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