From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Zhengmian Hu <huzhengmian@gmail.com>,
	John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18 575/641] apparmor: avoid per-cpu hold underflow in aa_get_buffer
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:25:01 -0800
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6.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Zhengmian Hu <huzhengmian@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 640cf2f09575c9dc344b3f7be2498d31e3923ead ]

When aa_get_buffer() pulls from the per-cpu list it unconditionally
decrements cache->hold. If hold reaches 0 while count is still non-zero,
the unsigned decrement wraps to UINT_MAX. This keeps hold non-zero for a
very long time, so aa_put_buffer() never returns buffers to the global
list, which can starve other CPUs and force repeated kmalloc(aa_g_path_max)
allocations.

Guard the decrement so hold never underflows.
Fixes: ea9bae12d028 ("apparmor: cache buffers on percpu list if there is lock contention")

Signed-off-by: Zhengmian Hu <huzhengmian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 security/apparmor/lsm.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/lsm.c b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
index be3678d08ed23..13c9bfdf65ff5 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lsm.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
@@ -2136,7 +2136,8 @@ char *aa_get_buffer(bool in_atomic)
 	if (!list_empty(&cache->head)) {
 		aa_buf = list_first_entry(&cache->head, union aa_buffer, list);
 		list_del(&aa_buf->list);
-		cache->hold--;
+		if (cache->hold)
+			cache->hold--;
 		cache->count--;
 		put_cpu_ptr(&aa_local_buffers);
 		return &aa_buf->buffer[0];
-- 
2.51.0