The 'allocation failed, ...' warning messages can cause unlimited log spam, contrary to the implementation's intent. The warn_limit variable is accessed without synchronization. If more than threads enter the warning path at the same time, the variable will get decremented past 0. Once it becomes negative, the non-zero check will always return true leading to unlimited log spam. Use atomic operations to access warn_limit and change the check to test for positive (> 0) as it can still become negative. While the change cited in Fixes is only adjacent, the warning limit implementation was correct before it. Only non-atomic allocations were considered for warnings, and those happened to hold pcpu_alloc_mutex while accessing warn_limit. Fixes: f7d77dfc91f7 ("mm/percpu.c: print error message too if atomic alloc failed") Signed-off-by: Vlad Dumitrescu --- mm/percpu.c | 20 ++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c index a56f35dcc417..c1a4089eb4c3 100644 --- a/mm/percpu.c +++ b/mm/percpu.c @@ -1734,7 +1734,7 @@ void __percpu *pcpu_alloc_noprof(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved, bool is_atomic; bool do_warn; struct obj_cgroup *objcg = NULL; - static int warn_limit = 10; + static atomic_t warn_limit = ATOMIC_INIT(10); struct pcpu_chunk *chunk, *next; const char *err; int slot, off, cpu, ret; @@ -1904,13 +1904,17 @@ void __percpu *pcpu_alloc_noprof(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved, fail: trace_percpu_alloc_percpu_fail(reserved, is_atomic, size, align); - if (do_warn && warn_limit) { - pr_warn("allocation failed, size=%zu align=%zu atomic=%d, %s\n", - size, align, is_atomic, err); - if (!is_atomic) - dump_stack(); - if (!--warn_limit) - pr_info("limit reached, disable warning\n"); + if (do_warn && atomic_read(&warn_limit) > 0) { + int remaining = atomic_dec_return(&warn_limit); + + if (remaining >= 0) { + pr_warn("allocation failed, size=%zu align=%zu atomic=%d, %s\n", + size, align, is_atomic, err); + if (!is_atomic) + dump_stack(); + if (remaining == 0) + pr_info("limit reached, disable warning\n"); + } } if (is_atomic) { -- 2.49.0