codetag-debug-handle-existing-codetag_empty-in-mark_objexts_empty-for-slabobj_ext.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
Subject: codetag: debug: handle existing CODETAG_EMPTY in mark_objexts_empty for slabobj_ext
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
codetag-debug-handle-existing-codetag_empty-in-mark_objexts_empty-for-slabobj_ext.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Hao Ge <[email protected]>
Subject: codetag: debug: handle existing CODETAG_EMPTY in mark_objexts_empty for slabobj_ext
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:43:17 +0800

When alloc_slab_obj_exts() fails and then later succeeds in allocating a slab extension vector, it calls handle_failed_objexts_alloc() to mark all objects in the vector as empty. As a result all objects in this slab (slabA) will have their extensions set to CODETAG_EMPTY.

Later on if this slabA is used to allocate a slabobj_ext vector for another slab (slabB), we end up with the slabB->obj_exts pointing to a slabobj_ext vector that itself has a non-NULL slabobj_ext equal to CODETAG_EMPTY. When slabB gets freed, free_slab_obj_exts() is called to free slabB->obj_exts vector.

free_slab_obj_exts() calls mark_objexts_empty(slabB->obj_exts) which will generate a warning because it expects slabobj_ext vectors to have a NULL obj_ext, not CODETAG_EMPTY.

Modify mark_objexts_empty() to skip the warning and setting the obj_ext value if it's already set to CODETAG_EMPTY.

To quickly detect this WARN, I modified the code from WARN_ON(slab_exts[offs].ref.ct) to BUG_ON(slab_exts[offs].ref.ct == 1);

We then obtained this message:

[21630.898561] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[21630.898596] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:2050!
[21630.898611] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
[21630.900372] Modules linked in: squashfs isofs vfio_iommu_type1 

vhost_vsock vfio vhost_net vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common vhost tap vhost_iotlb iommufd vsock binfmt_misc nfsv3 nfs_acl nfs lockd grace netfs tls rds dns_resolver tun brd overlay ntfs3 exfat btrfs blake2b_generic xor xor_neon raid6_pq loop sctp ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables rfkill ip_set sunrpc vfat fat joydev sg sch_fq_codel nfnetlink virtio_gpu sr_mod cdrom drm_client_lib virtio_dma_buf drm_shmem_helper drm_kms_helper drm ghash_ce backlight virtio_net virtio_blk virtio_scsi net_failover virtio_console failover virtio_mmio dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod fuse i2c_dev virtio_pci virtio_pci_legacy_dev virtio_pci_modern_dev virtio virtio_ring autofs4 aes_neon_bs aes_ce_blk [last unloaded: hwpoison_inject]

[21630.909177] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 3787 Comm: kylin-process-m Kdump: 
loaded Tainted: G        W           6.18.0-rc1+ #74 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[21630.910495] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[21630.910867] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 
2/2/2022
[21630.911625] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS 
BTYPE=--)
[21630.912392] pc : __free_slab+0x228/0x250
[21630.912868] lr : __free_slab+0x18c/0x250[21630.913334] sp : 
ffff8000a02f73e0
[21630.913830] x29: ffff8000a02f73e0 x28: fffffdffc43fc800 x27: 
ffff0000c0011c40
[21630.914677] x26: ffff0000c000cac0 x25: ffff00010fe5e5f0 x24: 
ffff000102199b40
[21630.915469] x23: 0000000000000003 x22: 0000000000000003 x21: 
ffff0000c0011c40
[21630.916259] x20: fffffdffc4086600 x19: fffffdffc43fc800 x18: 
0000000000000000
[21630.917048] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 
0000000000000000
[21630.917837] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 
ffff70001405ee66
[21630.918640] x11: 1ffff0001405ee65 x10: ffff70001405ee65 x9 : 
ffff800080a295dc
[21630.919442] x8 : ffff8000a02f7330 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 
0000000000003000
[21630.920232] x5 : 0000000024924925 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 
0000000000000007
[21630.921021] x2 : 0000000000001b40 x1 : 000000000000001f x0 : 
0000000000000001
[21630.921810] Call trace:
[21630.922130]  __free_slab+0x228/0x250 (P)
[21630.922669]  free_slab+0x38/0x118
[21630.923079]  free_to_partial_list+0x1d4/0x340
[21630.923591]  __slab_free+0x24c/0x348
[21630.924024]  ___cache_free+0xf0/0x110
[21630.924468]  qlist_free_all+0x78/0x130
[21630.924922]  kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x114/0x148
[21630.925525]  __kasan_slab_alloc+0x7c/0xb0
[21630.926006]  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x164/0x5c8
[21630.926699]  __alloc_object+0x44/0x1f8
[21630.927153]  __create_object+0x34/0xc8
[21630.927604]  kmemleak_alloc+0xb8/0xd8
[21630.928052]  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x368/0x5c8
[21630.928606]  getname_flags.part.0+0xa4/0x610
[21630.929112]  getname_flags+0x80/0xd8
[21630.929557]  vfs_fstatat+0xc8/0xe0
[21630.929975]  __do_sys_newfstatat+0xa0/0x100
[21630.930469]  __arm64_sys_newfstatat+0x90/0xd8
[21630.931046]  invoke_syscall+0xd4/0x258
[21630.931685]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb4/0x240
[21630.932467]  do_el0_svc+0x48/0x68
[21630.932972]  el0_svc+0x40/0xe0
[21630.933472]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
[21630.934151]  el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
[21630.934923] Code: aa1803e0 97ffef2b a9446bf9 17ffff9c (d4210000)
[21630.936461] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
[21630.939550] Starting crashdump kernel...
[21630.940108] Bye!

---

 mm/slub.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -2046,7 +2046,11 @@ static inline void mark_objexts_empty(st
 	if (slab_exts) {
 		unsigned int offs = obj_to_index(obj_exts_slab->slab_cache,
 						 obj_exts_slab, obj_exts);
-		/* codetag should be NULL */
+
+		if (unlikely(is_codetag_empty(&slab_exts[offs].ref)))
+			return;
+
+		/* codetag should be NULL here */
 		WARN_ON(slab_exts[offs].ref.ct);
 		set_codetag_empty(&slab_exts[offs].ref);
 	}

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mailmap-add-entry-for-hao-ge.patch