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slab: fix kmalloc_nolock() context check for PREEMPT_RT

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On PREEMPT_RT kernels, local_lock becomes a sleeping lock. The current
check in kmalloc_nolock() only verifies we're not in NMI or hard IRQ
context, but misses the case where preemption is disabled.

When a BPF program runs from a tracepoint with preemption disabled
(preempt_count > 0), kmalloc_nolock() proceeds to call
local_lock_irqsave() which attempts to acquire a sleeping lock,
triggering:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 6128
  preempt_count: 2, expected: 0

Fix this by checking !preemptible() on PREEMPT_RT, which directly
expresses the constraint that we cannot take a sleeping lock when
preemption is disabled. This encompasses the previous checks for NMI
and hard IRQ contexts while also catching cases where preemption is
disabled.

Fixes: af92793e52 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().")
Reported-by: syzbot+b1546ad4a95331b2101e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b1546ad4a95331b2101e
Signed-off-by: Swaraj Gaikwad <swarajgaikwad1925@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113150639.48407-1-swarajgaikwad1925@gmail.co
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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