kmalloc() shouldn't sleep while in RCU critical section, therefore use GFP_ATOMIC instead of GFP_KERNEL.
The bug has been spotted by the 0day kernel testing robot. Fixes: 7e659650cbda ("lib: introduce test_meminit module") Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <gli...@google.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux...@kvack.org Cc: linux-security-mod...@vger.kernel.org --- lib/test_meminit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/test_meminit.c b/lib/test_meminit.c index 62d19f270cad..9729f271d150 100644 --- a/lib/test_meminit.c +++ b/lib/test_meminit.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int __init do_kmem_cache_size(size_t size, bool want_ctor, * Copy the buffer to check that it's not wiped on * free(). */ - buf_copy = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + buf_copy = kmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC); if (buf_copy) memcpy(buf_copy, buf, size); -- 2.22.0.657.g960e92d24f-goog