slab: Avoid race on slab->obj_exts in alloc_slab_obj_exts

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commit 6ed8bfd24c upstream.

If two competing threads enter alloc_slab_obj_exts() and one of them
fails to allocate the object extension vector, it might override the
valid slab->obj_exts allocated by the other thread with
OBJEXTS_ALLOC_FAIL. This will cause the thread that lost this race and
expects a valid pointer to dereference a NULL pointer later on.

Update slab->obj_exts atomically using cmpxchg() to avoid
slab->obj_exts overrides by racing threads.

Thanks for Vlastimil and Suren's help with debugging.

Fixes: f7381b9116 ("slab: mark slab->obj_exts allocation failures unconditionally")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <gehao@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251021010353.1187193-1-hao.ge@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Hao Ge 2025-10-21 09:03:53 +08:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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