mm: kmemleak: avoid deadlock on the kmemleak object insertion error path
While very unlikely (usually kmemleak or sl*b bug), the create_object() function in mm/kmemleak.c may fail to insert a newly allocated object into the rb tree. When this happens, kmemleak disables itself and prints additional information about the object already found in the rb tree. Such printing is done with the parent->lock acquired, however the kmemleak_lock is already held. This is a potential race with the scanning thread which acquires object->lock and kmemleak_lock in a This patch removes the locking around the 'parent' object information printing. Such object cannot be freed or removed from object_tree_root and object_list since kmemleak_lock is already held. There is a very small risk that some of the object data is being modified on another CPU but the only downside is inconsistent information printing. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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