mm: fix possible deadlock in kmemleak
There are some AA deadlock issues in kmemleak, similar to the situation
reported by Breno [1]. The deadlock path is as follows:
mem_pool_alloc()
-> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags);
-> pr_warn()
-> netconsole subsystem
-> netpoll
-> __alloc_skb
-> __create_object
-> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags);
To solve this problem, switch to printk_safe mode before printing warning
message, this will redirect all printk()-s to a special per-CPU buffer,
which will be flushed later from a safe context (irq work), and this
deadlock problem can be avoided. The proper API to use should be
printk_deferred_enter()/printk_deferred_exit() [2]. Another way is to
place the warn print after kmemleak is released.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822073541.1886469-1-gubowen5@huawei.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250731-kmemleak_lock-v1-1-728fd470198f@debian.org/#t [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5ca375cd-4a20-4807-b897-68b289626550@redhat.com/ [2]
Signed-off-by: Gu Bowen <gubowen5@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Lu Jialin <lujialin4@huawei.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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