On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 09:31:23AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
The routine cma_init_reserved_areas is designed to activate all reserved cma areas. It quits when it first encounters an error. This can leave some areas in a state where they are reserved but not activated. There is no feedback to code which performed the reservation. Attempting to allocate memory from areas in such a state will result in a BUG.
Modify cma_init_reserved_areas to always attempt to activate all areas. The called routine, cma_activate_area is responsible for leaving the area in a valid state. No one is making active use of returned error codes, so change the routine to void.
How to reproduce: This example uses kernelcore, hugetlb and cma as an easy way to reproduce. However, this is a more general cma issue.
Two node x86 VM 16GB total, 8GB per node Kernel command line parameters, kernelcore=4G hugetlb_cma=8G Related boot time messages, hugetlb_cma: reserve 8192 MiB, up to 4096 MiB per node cma: Reserved 4096 MiB at 0x0000000100000000 hugetlb_cma: reserved 4096 MiB on node 0 cma: Reserved 4096 MiB at 0x0000000300000000 hugetlb_cma: reserved 4096 MiB on node 1 cma: CMA area hugetlb could not be activated
# echo 8 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI ... Call Trace: bitmap_find_next_zero_area_off+0x51/0x90 cma_alloc+0x1a5/0x310 alloc_fresh_huge_page+0x78/0x1a0 alloc_pool_huge_page+0x6f/0xf0 set_max_huge_pages+0x10c/0x250 nr_hugepages_store_common+0x92/0x120 ? __kmalloc+0x171/0x270 kernfs_fop_write+0xc1/0x1a0 vfs_write+0xc7/0x1f0 ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0 do_syscall_64+0x4d/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
Fixes: c64be2bb1c6e ("drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator") Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Makes total sense to me!
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin guro@fb.com
Thanks!