+ kasan-fix-quarantine_size-accounting-during-cache-removal.patch added to mm-new branch

The patch titled
     Subject: kasan: fix quarantine_size accounting during cache removal
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     kasan-fix-quarantine_size-accounting-during-cache-removal.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/kasan-fix-quarantine_size-accounting-during-cache-removal.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Hui Su <[email protected]>
Subject: kasan: fix quarantine_size accounting during cache removal
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:33:32 +0800

quarantine_size tracks the total number of bytes stored in
global_quarantine[].  It is incremented when per-CPU quarantine objects
are moved into the global quarantine and decremented when a global batch
is evicted by kasan_quarantine_reduce().

kasan_quarantine_remove_cache() also removes objects from the global
quarantine.  qlist_move_cache() rebuilds the source batch and updates its
.bytes field, but quarantine_size is not adjusted accordingly.

As a result, quarantine_size remains over-counted by the size of the
removed objects.  The stale accounting accumulates across cache removals. 
Once the inflated value exceeds quarantine_max_size,
kasan_quarantine_reduce() can evict a batch even though the actual number
of bytes in global_quarantine[] is still below quarantine_max_size,
shortening the quarantine window.

Fix the accounting by recording each batch's size before
qlist_move_cache() and subtracting the number of bytes actually removed
from quarantine_size while holding quarantine_lock.

A KUnit reproducer used during testing observed the over-count grow by
4698864 bytes after one kasan_quarantine_remove_cache() call with the fix
reverted.  With this change applied, the over-count did not grow.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Fixes: 64abdcb24351 ("kasan: eliminate long stalls during quarantine reduction")
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Sashiko <[email protected]>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260808031459.3032812-1-sh_def%40163.com
Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 mm/kasan/quarantine.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c~kasan-fix-quarantine_size-accounting-during-cache-removal
+++ a/mm/kasan/quarantine.c
@@ -370,9 +370,14 @@ void kasan_quarantine_remove_cache(struc
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&quarantine_lock, flags);
 	for (i = 0; i < QUARANTINE_BATCHES; i++) {
+		size_t old_bytes;
+
 		if (qlist_empty(&global_quarantine[i]))
 			continue;
+		old_bytes = global_quarantine[i].bytes;
 		qlist_move_cache(&global_quarantine[i], &to_free, cache);
+		WRITE_ONCE(quarantine_size, quarantine_size -
+			   (old_bytes - global_quarantine[i].bytes));
 		/* Scanning whole quarantine can take a while. */
 		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&quarantine_lock, flags);
 		cond_resched();
_

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

kasan-fix-cache-shrink-race-with-cpu-hotplug.patch
kasan-fix-quarantine_size-accounting-during-cache-removal.patch