3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ Upstream commit efad4e475c312456edb3c789d0996d12ed744c13 ]
Patch series "mm, memory_hotplug: fix uninitialized pages fallouts", v2.
Mikhail Zaslonko has posted fixes for the two bugs quite some time ago [1]. I have pushed back on those fixes because I believed that it is much better to plug the problem at the initialization time rather than play whack-a-mole all over the hotplug code and find all the places which expect the full memory section to be initialized.
We have ended up with commit 2830bf6f05fb ("mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section") merged and cause a regression [2][3]. The reason is that there might be memory layouts when two NUMA nodes share the same memory section so the merged fix is simply incorrect.
In order to plug this hole we really have to be zone range aware in those handlers. I have split up the original patch into two. One is unchanged (patch 2) and I took a different approach for `removable' crash.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105150401.97287-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666948 [3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190125163938.GA20411@dhcp22.suse.cz
This patch (of 2):
Mikhail has reported the following VM_BUG_ON triggered when reading sysfs removable state of a memory block:
page:000003d08300c000 is uninitialized and poisoned page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p)) Call Trace: is_mem_section_removable+0xb4/0x190 show_mem_removable+0x9a/0xd8 dev_attr_show+0x34/0x70 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xc8/0x148 seq_read+0x204/0x480 __vfs_read+0x32/0x178 vfs_read+0x82/0x138 ksys_read+0x5a/0xb0 system_call+0xdc/0x2d8 Last Breaking-Event-Address: is_mem_section_removable+0xb4/0x190 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops
The reason is that the memory block spans the zone boundary and we are stumbling over an unitialized struct page. Fix this by enforcing zone range in is_mem_section_removable so that we never run away from a zone.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190128144506.15603-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Reported-by: Mikhail Zaslonko zaslonko@linux.ibm.com Debugged-by: Mikhail Zaslonko zaslonko@linux.ibm.com Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador osalvador@suse.de Cc: Pavel Tatashin pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Cc: Heiko Carstens heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Cc: Martin Schwidefsky schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- mm/memory_hotplug.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c index 05014e89efae..3fb2067c36a4 100644 --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c @@ -1321,7 +1321,8 @@ static struct page *next_active_pageblock(struct page *page) int is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages) { struct page *page = pfn_to_page(start_pfn); - struct page *end_page = page + nr_pages; + unsigned long end_pfn = min(start_pfn + nr_pages, zone_end_pfn(page_zone(page))); + struct page *end_page = pfn_to_page(end_pfn);
/* Check the starting page of each pageblock within the range */ for (; page < end_page; page = next_active_pageblock(page)) {