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authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>2026-06-15 10:49:07 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-07-28 21:11:49 -0700
commiteb11f56eeca56069613d00bf623607e305b271d9 (patch)
treef4c9190f986047ec10dc7e4fea84d2710f86c38b
parent5d10d4e19e6daa487f0cd0ea6cba472325de92f9 (diff)
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mm/kmemleak: stop the task stack scan early when interrupted
scan_block() already checks scan_should_stop() for every pointer and bails out of the current block, but the task stack walk cannot tell and keeps issuing a separate scan_should_stop() between every task. Return that status from scan_block() and use it as the task stack loop condition, so the walk stops as soon as a scan is interrupted. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260615-kmemleak-stack-resched-v3-2-acecd7d7fd92@debian.org Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/kmemleak.c18
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 16b72cead07d..bc79e293531b 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1525,22 +1525,25 @@ static int scan_should_stop(void)
/*
* Scan a memory block (exclusive range) for valid pointers and add those
- * found to the gray list.
+ * found to the gray list. Return non-zero if the scan was interrupted.
*/
-static void scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
- struct kmemleak_object *scanned)
+static int scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
+ struct kmemleak_object *scanned)
{
unsigned long *ptr;
unsigned long *start = PTR_ALIGN(_start, BYTES_PER_POINTER);
unsigned long *end = _end - (BYTES_PER_POINTER - 1);
unsigned long flags;
+ int stop = 0;
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags);
for (ptr = start; ptr < end; ptr++) {
unsigned long pointer;
- if (scan_should_stop())
+ if (scan_should_stop()) {
+ stop = 1;
break;
+ }
kasan_disable_current();
pointer = *(unsigned long *)kasan_reset_tag((void *)ptr);
@@ -1550,6 +1553,8 @@ static void scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
pointer_update_refs(scanned, pointer, OBJECT_PERCPU);
}
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&kmemleak_lock, flags);
+
+ return stop;
}
/*
@@ -1705,6 +1710,7 @@ static void kmemleak_scan_task_stacks(void)
{
struct pid *pid;
int nr = 1;
+ int stop = 0;
do {
struct task_struct *p = NULL;
@@ -1723,13 +1729,13 @@ static void kmemleak_scan_task_stacks(void)
void *stack = try_get_task_stack(p);
if (stack) {
- scan_block(stack, stack + THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
+ stop = scan_block(stack, stack + THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
put_task_stack(p);
}
put_task_struct(p);
}
cond_resched();
- } while (pid && !scan_should_stop());
+ } while (pid && !stop);
}
/*