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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>2026-06-21 16:47:44 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>2026-06-22 16:38:57 +0200
commitb81dde13cc163450dcb402dcc915ef13ba241e01 (patch)
treeb59c6fe09e368d031e648ef9e867463334105342 /lib
parentde3ab9bd3133899efb92e4cd05ba4203e58fc0a3 (diff)
debugobjects: Plug race against a concurrent OOM disable
syzbot reported a puzzling splat: WARNING: kernel/time/hrtimer.c:443 at stub_timer+0xa/0x20 stub_timer() is installed as timer callback function in hrtimer_fixup_assert_init(), which is invoked when debug_object_assert_init() can't find a shadow object. In that case debug objects emits a warning about it before invoking the fixup. Though the provided console log lacks this warning and instead has the following a few seconds before the splat: ODEBUG: Out of memory. ODEBUG disabled So the object was looked up in debug_object_assert_init() and the lookup failed due a concurrent out of memory situation which disabled debug objects and freed the shadow objects: debug_object_assert_init() if (!debug_objects_enabled) return; obj = alloc(); if (!obj) { // Out of memory debug_objects_enabled = false; free_objects(); obj = lookup_or_alloc(); // The lookup failed because the other side // removed the objects, so this returns // an error code as the object in question // is not statically initialized if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(obj)) return; if (!obj) { debug_oom(); return; } print(...) if (!debug_objects_enabled) return; fixup(...) The debug object splat is skipped because debug_objects_enabled is false, but the fixup callback is invoked unconditionally, which makes the timer disfunctional. This is only a problem in debug_object_assert_init() and debug_object_activate() as both have to handle statically initialized objects and therefore must handle the error pointer return case gracefully. All other places only handle the found/not found case and the NULL pointer return is a signal for OOM. Otherwise they get a valid shadow object. Plug the hole by checking whether debug objects are still enabled before invoking the print and fixup function in those two places. Fixes: b84d435cc228 ("debugobjects: Extend to assert that an object is initialized") Reported-by: syzbot+5e8dda76ca21dae314b6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/874iiwlzlb.ffs@fw13
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/debugobjects.c17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/debugobjects.c b/lib/debugobjects.c
index 6fb00e08a4e2..877f7675ba26 100644
--- a/lib/debugobjects.c
+++ b/lib/debugobjects.c
@@ -894,6 +894,14 @@ int debug_object_activate(void *addr, const struct debug_obj_descr *descr)
}
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&db->lock, flags);
+
+ /*
+ * lookup_object_or_alloc() might have raced with a concurrent
+ * allocation failure which disabled debug objects.
+ */
+ if (!debug_objects_enabled)
+ return 0;
+
debug_print_object(&o, "activate");
switch (o.state) {
@@ -1071,6 +1079,15 @@ void debug_object_assert_init(void *addr, const struct debug_obj_descr *descr)
return;
}
+ /*
+ * lookup_object_or_alloc() might have raced with a concurrent
+ * allocation failure which disabled debug objects. Don't run the fixup
+ * as it might turn a valid object useless. See for example
+ * hrtimer_fixup_assert_init().
+ */
+ if (!debug_objects_enabled)
+ return;
+
/* Object is neither tracked nor static. It's not initialized. */
debug_print_object(&o, "assert_init");
debug_object_fixup(descr->fixup_assert_init, addr, ODEBUG_STATE_NOTAVAILABLE);