From: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>,
"Christian Brauner (Amutable)" <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>,
Erhard Furtner <erhard_f@mailbox.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] netfs: Fix missing alloc tagging of direct mempool allocations
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:35:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922023541.51532-1-hao.ge@linux.dev> (raw)
Commit 1d78d56c43ef ("netfs: Fix folio_queue ENOMEM in writeback by
adding a mempool") added a mempool for the folio_queues and made the
request, subrequest and folio_queue allocations distinguish between
writeback and everything else. Writeback is part of memory reclaim
and must not fail due to ENOMEM, so it allocates under GFP_NOFS
through mempool_alloc(), which may dip into the pool's reserve and,
if that runs empty, wait for elements to be returned. The
GFP_KERNEL paths, which can return -ENOMEM to their callers, invoke
the pool's ->alloc() callback directly instead.
The direct call, however, skips the alloc_hooks() wrapper that the
mempool_alloc() macro provides. The pool callbacks, mempool_alloc_slab()
and mempool_kmalloc(), call kmem_cache_alloc_noprof() and kmalloc_noprof()
and rely on current->alloc_tag having been set by the caller. With
CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y this leads to
current->alloc_tag not set
WARNING: ./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:161 at __alloc_tagging_slab_alloc_hook
alloc_tag was not set
WARNING: ./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:166 at __alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook
at allocation and free time respectively, as reported when reading
files on a CIFS mount. The allocations are also missing from
/proc/allocinfo.
Wrap the direct ->alloc() invocations in alloc_hooks() with the new
netfs_mempool_alloc_noreserve() helper. The GFP_KERNEL paths keep their
failable allocation semantics, they just get tagged now.
Fixes: 1d78d56c43ef ("netfs: Fix folio_queue ENOMEM in writeback by adding a mempool")
Reported-by: Erhard Furtner <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0b004319-9ef7-437c-a4dd-174d6a9a83db@mailbox.org/
Tested-by: Erhard Furtner <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@linux.dev>
---
fs/netfs/internal.h | 3 +++
fs/netfs/objects.c | 4 ++--
fs/netfs/rolling_buffer.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/netfs/internal.h b/fs/netfs/internal.h
index c79c8e69d60c..08ba7f0ebff0 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/netfs/internal.h
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ extern mempool_t netfs_request_pool;
extern mempool_t netfs_subrequest_pool;
extern mempool_t netfs_folioq_pool;
+#define netfs_mempool_alloc_noreserve(_pool, _gfp) \
+ alloc_hooks((_pool)->alloc(_gfp, (_pool)->pool_data))
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
static inline void netfs_proc_add_rreq(struct netfs_io_request *rreq)
{
diff --git a/fs/netfs/objects.c b/fs/netfs/objects.c
index 7f6a3e912602..0b509c93d4af 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/objects.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/objects.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct netfs_io_request *netfs_alloc_request(struct address_space *mapping,
rreq = mempool_alloc(mempool, gfp);
} else {
- rreq = mempool->alloc(gfp, mempool->pool_data);
+ rreq = netfs_mempool_alloc_noreserve(mempool, gfp);
if (!rreq)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ struct netfs_io_subrequest *netfs_alloc_subrequest(struct netfs_io_request *rreq
struct kmem_cache *cache = mempool->pool_data;
if (rreq->gfp == GFP_KERNEL)
- subreq = mempool->alloc(rreq->gfp, mempool->pool_data);
+ subreq = netfs_mempool_alloc_noreserve(mempool, rreq->gfp);
else
subreq = mempool_alloc(mempool, rreq->gfp);
if (!subreq)
diff --git a/fs/netfs/rolling_buffer.c b/fs/netfs/rolling_buffer.c
index 424e77a9a109..54867ceaa205 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/rolling_buffer.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/rolling_buffer.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ struct folio_queue *netfs_folioq_alloc(unsigned int rreq_id, gfp_t gfp,
struct folio_queue *fq;
if (gfp == GFP_KERNEL)
- fq = netfs_folioq_pool.alloc(gfp, netfs_folioq_pool.pool_data);
+ fq = netfs_mempool_alloc_noreserve(&netfs_folioq_pool, gfp);
else
fq = mempool_alloc(&netfs_folioq_pool, gfp);
if (fq) {
--
2.25.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-09-22 2:35 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-22 2:35 Hao Ge [this message]
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