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Commit 945afc5
mm/page_alloc.c: fix uninitialized memmaps on a partially populated last section
commit e822969 upstream.
Patch series "mm: fix max_pfn not falling on section boundary", v2.
Playing with different memory sizes for a x86-64 guest, I discovered that
some memmaps (highest section if max_mem does not fall on the section
boundary) are marked as being valid and online, but contain garbage. We
have to properly initialize these memmaps.
Looking at /proc/kpageflags and friends, I found some more issues,
partially related to this.
This patch (of 3):
If max_pfn is not aligned to a section boundary, we can easily run into
BUGs. This can e.g., be triggered on x86-64 under QEMU by specifying a
memory size that is not a multiple of 128MB (e.g., 4097MB, but also
4160MB). I was told that on real HW, we can easily have this scenario
(esp., one of the main reasons sub-section hotadd of devmem was added).
The issue is, that we have a valid memmap (pfn_valid()) for the whole
section, and the whole section will be marked "online".
pfn_to_online_page() will succeed, but the memmap contains garbage.
E.g., doing a "./page-types -r -a 0x144001" when QEMU was started with "-m
4160M" - (see tools/vm/page-types.c):
[ 200.476376] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffffe
[ 200.477500] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 200.478334] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 200.479076] PGD 59614067 P4D 59614067 PUD 59616067 PMD 0
[ 200.479557] Oops: 0000 [#4] SMP NOPTI
[ 200.479875] CPU: 0 PID: 603 Comm: page-types Tainted: G D W 5.5.0-rc1-next-20191209 torvalds#93
[ 200.480646] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.0-59-gc9ba5276e321-prebuilt.qemu4
[ 200.481648] RIP: 0010:stable_page_flags+0x4d/0x410
[ 200.482061] Code: f3 ff 41 89 c0 48 b8 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 45 84 c0 0f 85 cd 02 00 00 48 8b 53 08 48 8b 2b 48f
[ 200.483644] RSP: 0018:ffffb139401cbe60 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 200.484091] RAX: fffffffffffffffe RBX: fffffbeec5100040 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 200.484697] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff9535c7cd RDI: 0000000000000246
[ 200.485313] RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 200.485917] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000144001
[ 200.486523] R13: 00007ffd6ba55f48 R14: 00007ffd6ba55f40 R15: ffffb139401cbf08
[ 200.487130] FS: 00007f68df717580(0000) GS:ffff9ec77fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 200.487804] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 200.488295] CR2: fffffffffffffffe CR3: 0000000135d48000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[ 200.488897] Call Trace:
[ 200.489115] kpageflags_read+0xe9/0x140
[ 200.489447] proc_reg_read+0x3c/0x60
[ 200.489755] vfs_read+0xc2/0x170
[ 200.490037] ksys_pread64+0x65/0xa0
[ 200.490352] do_syscall_64+0x5c/0xa0
[ 200.490665] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
But it can be triggered much easier via "cat /proc/kpageflags > /dev/null"
after cold/hot plugging a DIMM to such a system:
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/kpageflags > /dev/null
[ 111.517275] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffffe
[ 111.517907] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 111.518333] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 111.518771] PGD a240e067 P4D a240e067 PUD a2410067 PMD 0
This patch fixes that by at least zero-ing out that memmap (so e.g.,
page_to_pfn() will not crash). Commit 907ec5f ("mm: zero remaining
unavailable struct pages") tried to fix a similar issue, but forgot to
consider this special case.
After this patch, there are still problems to solve. E.g., not all of
these pages falling into a memory hole will actually get initialized later
and set PageReserved - they are only zeroed out - but at least the
immediate crashes are gone. A follow-up patch will take care of this.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: f7f9910 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Daniel Jordan <[email protected]>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Sistare <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <[email protected]>
Cc: Bob Picco <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]> [4.15+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>1 parent ab751a8 commit 945afc5
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