While doing memory hot-unplug operation on a PowerPC VM running 1024 CPUs with 11TB of ram, I hit the following panic:
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000007 Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000456048 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#2] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries Modules linked in: rpadlpar_io rpaphp CPU: 160 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G D 5.9.0 #1 NIP: c000000000456048 LR: c000000000455fd4 CTR: c00000000047b350 REGS: c00006028d1b77a0 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G D (5.9.0) MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24004228 XER: 00000000 CFAR: c00000000000f1b0 DAR: 0000000000000007 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 GPR00: c000000000455fd4 c00006028d1b7a30 c000000001bec800 0000000000000000 GPR04: 0000000000000dc0 0000000000000000 00000000000374ef c00007c53df99320 GPR08: 000007c53c980000 0000000000000000 000007c53c980000 0000000000000000 GPR12: 0000000000004400 c00000001e8e4400 0000000000000000 0000000000000f6a GPR16: 0000000000000000 c000000001c25930 c000000001d62528 00000000000000c1 GPR20: c000000001d62538 c00006be469e9000 0000000fffffffe0 c0000000003c0ff8 GPR24: 0000000000000018 0000000000000000 0000000000000dc0 0000000000000000 GPR28: c00007c513755700 c000000001c236a4 c00007bc4001f800 0000000000000001 NIP [c000000000456048] __kmalloc_node+0x108/0x790 LR [c000000000455fd4] __kmalloc_node+0x94/0x790 Call Trace: [c00006028d1b7a30] [c00007c51af92000] 0xc00007c51af92000 (unreliable) [c00006028d1b7aa0] [c0000000003c0ff8] kvmalloc_node+0x58/0x110 [c00006028d1b7ae0] [c00000000047b45c] mem_cgroup_css_online+0x10c/0x270 [c00006028d1b7b30] [c000000000241fd8] online_css+0x48/0xd0 [c00006028d1b7b60] [c00000000024af14] cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x2c4/0x470 [c00006028d1b7c40] [c00000000024e838] cgroup_mkdir+0x408/0x5f0 [c00006028d1b7cb0] [c0000000005a4ef0] kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x90/0x100 [c00006028d1b7cf0] [c0000000004b8168] vfs_mkdir+0x138/0x250 [c00006028d1b7d40] [c0000000004baf04] do_mkdirat+0x154/0x1c0 [c00006028d1b7dc0] [c000000000032b38] system_call_exception+0xf8/0x200 [c00006028d1b7e20] [c00000000000c740] system_call_common+0xf0/0x27c Instruction dump: e93e0000 e90d0030 39290008 7cc9402a e94d0030 e93e0000 7ce95214 7f89502a 2fbc0000 419e0018 41920230 e9270010 <89290007> 7f994800 419e0220 7ee6bb78
This pointing to the following code:
mm/slub.c:2851 if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node))) { c000000000456038: 00 00 bc 2f cmpdi cr7,r28,0 c00000000045603c: 18 00 9e 41 beq cr7,c000000000456054 <__kmalloc_node+0x114> node_match(): mm/slub.c:2491 if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE && page_to_nid(page) != node) c000000000456040: 30 02 92 41 beq cr4,c000000000456270 <__kmalloc_node+0x330> page_to_nid(): include/linux/mm.h:1294 c000000000456044: 10 00 27 e9 ld r9,16(r7) c000000000456048: 07 00 29 89 lbz r9,7(r9) <<<< r9 = NULL node_match(): mm/slub.c:2491 c00000000045604c: 00 48 99 7f cmpw cr7,r25,r9 c000000000456050: 20 02 9e 41 beq cr7,c000000000456270 <__kmalloc_node+0x330>
The panic occurred in slab_alloc_node() when checking for the page's node: object = c->freelist; page = c->page; if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node))) { object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c); stat(s, ALLOC_SLOWPATH);
The issue is that object is not NULL while page is NULL which is odd but may happen if the cache flush happened after loading object but before loading page. Thus checking for the page pointer is required too.
In commit 6159d0f5c03e ("mm/slub.c: page is always non-NULL in node_match()") check on the page pointer has been removed assuming that page is always valid when it is called. It happens that this is not true in that particular case, so check for page before calling node_match() here.
Fixes: 6159d0f5c03e ("mm/slub.c: page is always non-NULL in node_match()") Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour ldufour@linux.ibm.com Cc: Christoph Lameter cl@linux.com Cc: Pekka Enberg penberg@kernel.org Cc: David Rientjes rientjes@google.com Cc: Joonsoo Kim iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- mm/slub.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c index 8f66de8a5ab3..7dc5c6aaf4b7 100644 --- a/mm/slub.c +++ b/mm/slub.c @@ -2852,7 +2852,7 @@ static __always_inline void *slab_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s,
object = c->freelist; page = c->page; - if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node))) { + if (unlikely(!object || !page || !node_match(page, node))) { object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c); } else { void *next_object = get_freepointer_safe(s, object);