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mm/page_alloc: return NULL early from alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() in NMI on UP

On UP kernels (!CONFIG_SMP), spin_trylock() is a no-op that
unconditionally succeeds even when the lock is already held. As a
result, alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() called from NMI context can
re-enter rmqueue() and acquire the zone lock that the interrupted
context is already holding, corrupting the freelists.

With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK on UP, the following BUG is triggered with
the slub_kunit test module:

BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP on CPU#0, kunit_try_catch/243
[...]
Call Trace:
<NMI>
dump_stack_lvl+0x3f/0x60
do_raw_spin_trylock+0x41/0x50
_raw_spin_trylock+0x24/0x50
rmqueue.isra.0+0x2a9/0xa70
get_page_from_freelist+0xeb/0x450
alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof+0x111/0x1e0
allocate_slab+0x42a/0x500
___slab_alloc+0xa7/0x4c0
kmalloc_nolock_noprof+0x164/0x310
[...]
</NMI>

Fix this by returning NULL early when invoked from NMI on a UP kernel.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/ad_cqe51pvr1WaDg@hyeyoo
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d7242af86434 ("mm: Introduce alloc_frozen_pages_nolock()")
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-nolock-api-fix-v2-1-a6b83a92d9a4@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>

authored by

Harry Yoo (Oracle) and committed by
Vlastimil Babka (SUSE)
620b46ed 082a6d03

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mm/page_alloc.c
··· 7775 7775 */ 7776 7776 if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && (in_nmi() || in_hardirq())) 7777 7777 return NULL; 7778 + 7779 + /* On UP, spin_trylock() always succeeds even when it is locked */ 7780 + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SMP) && in_nmi()) 7781 + return NULL; 7782 + 7778 7783 if (!pcp_allowed_order(order)) 7779 7784 return NULL; 7780 7785