syzbot reported a sleeping function called from invalid context splat in bucket_table_alloc(). When rhashtable_insert_slow() rehashes the table under rcu_read_lock(), it calls bucket_table_alloc(..., GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN). If the bucket table allocation uses vmalloc, __vmalloc_node_range_noprof() invokes vm_area_alloc_pages() -> alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy_noprof() with the passed GFP_ATOMIC flags. If the current task has an MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE mempolicy, alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave() is called and currently hardcodes GFP_KERNEL when allocating the temporary weights array, triggering a might_alloc() splat in atomic/RCU contexts. Pass the gfp flags (masked with GFP_RECLAIM_MASK to strip page-allocator zone modifiers like __GFP_HIGHMEM) received by alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave() to kmalloc() instead of hardcoding GFP_KERNEL. Since the weights buffer is immediately initialized in full, kmalloc() is sufficient. Fixes: fa3bea4e1f82 ("mm/mempolicy: introduce MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE for weighted interleaving") Reported-by: syzbot+0dbf6d295b3350944f0b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6a88837e.ae6ddae5.3da009.0040.GAE@google.com/T/#u Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet --- Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Matthew Brost Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Gregory Price Cc: Ying Huang Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org --- mm/mempolicy.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 501e0b80d7da..1ef50ca37d42 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ static unsigned long alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave(gfp_t gfp, prev_node = node; /* create a local copy of node weights to operate on outside rcu */ - weights = kzalloc(nr_node_ids, GFP_KERNEL); + weights = kmalloc(nr_node_ids, gfp & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK); if (!weights) return total_allocated; base-commit: 4e69c1856bfd9ffb7e9d335a25842fa211628929 -- 2.55.0.766.g2966f0265a-goog