From: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-team@meta.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, david@kernel.org,
willy@infradead.org, surenb@google.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
ljs@kernel.org, ziy@nvidia.com, usama.arif@linux.dev,
fvdl@google.com, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 32/40] mm: debug: prevent infinite recursion in dump_page() with CMA
Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 10:59:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260520150018.2491267-33-riel@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260520150018.2491267-1-riel@surriel.com>
dump_page() calls is_migrate_cma_folio() which expands to
get_pfnblock_migratetype(&folio->page, pfn). That helper resolves
the pageblock via pfn_to_pageblock(), and on !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
configurations pfn_to_pageblock() reads page_zone(page) to compute
the per-zone pageblock_data offset.
When dump_page() is invoked on a page whose zone is not initialised
(unavailable PFN ranges, very early boot, or a poisoned struct page),
the page_zone() dereference returns garbage and a downstream
VM_BUG_ON_PAGE in dump_page()'s own consistency checks fires. The
BUG handler then calls dump_page() on the same page, which re-enters
the same code path, hits the same BUG, and recurses until the kernel
runs out of stack.
Guard the is_migrate_cma_folio() call with pfn_valid() and only
resolve page_zone() once that has succeeded; only then run
zone_spans_pfn() before classifying the page. dump_page() can now
safely report on pages without a meaningful zone, and the "CMA"
suffix is only printed if the page is genuinely in a CMA pageblock.
Found by: dump_page() called from a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE in early boot
hitting a page in an unavailable range, recursing until stack
exhaustion.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.7 syzkaller
---
mm/debug.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c
index d4542d5d202b..e233520b009c 100644
--- a/mm/debug.c
+++ b/mm/debug.c
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ static void __dump_folio(const struct folio *folio, const struct page *page,
{
struct address_space *mapping = folio_mapping(folio);
int mapcount = atomic_read(&page->_mapcount) + 1;
+ bool cma = false;
char *type = "";
if (page_mapcount_is_type(mapcount))
@@ -112,9 +113,24 @@ static void __dump_folio(const struct folio *folio, const struct page *page,
* "isolate" again in the meantime, but since we are just dumping the
* state for debugging, it should be fine to accept a bit of
* inaccuracy here due to racing.
+ *
+ * Guard the is_migrate_cma_folio() call with pfn_valid() and
+ * zone_spans_pfn(). The macro calls get_pfnblock_migratetype()
+ * which calls get_pfnblock_flags_word() which has a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE
+ * for !zone_spans_pfn(). If that fires, dump_page() recurses
+ * infinitely. Call page_zone() only after pfn_valid() to avoid
+ * dereferencing uninitialized zone data during early boot.
*/
+#ifdef CONFIG_CMA
+ if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
+ struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
+
+ if (zone_spans_pfn(zone, pfn))
+ cma = is_migrate_cma_folio(folio, pfn);
+ }
+#endif
pr_warn("%sflags: %pGp%s\n", type, &folio->flags,
- is_migrate_cma_folio(folio, pfn) ? " CMA" : "");
+ cma ? " CMA" : "");
if (page_has_type(&folio->page))
pr_warn("page_type: %x(%s)\n", folio->page.page_type >> 24,
page_type_name(folio->page.page_type));
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-20 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-20 14:59 [RFC PATCH 00/40] mm: reliable 1GB page allocation Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 01/40] mm: page_alloc: replace pageblock_flags bitmap with struct pageblock_data Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 02/40] mm: page_alloc: per-cpu pageblock buddy allocator Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 03/40] mm: page_alloc: split-path PCP free with local-trylock + remote-llist Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 04/40] mm: mm_init: fix zone assignment for pages in unavailable ranges Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 05/40] mm: page_alloc: remove watermark boost mechanism Rik van Riel
2026-05-26 14:02 ` Usama Arif
2026-05-27 15:41 ` Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 06/40] mm: page_alloc: async evacuation of stolen movable pageblocks Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 07/40] mm: page_alloc: track actual page contents in pageblock flags Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 08/40] mm: page_alloc: superpageblock metadata for 1GB anti-fragmentation Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 09/40] mm: page_alloc: support superpageblock resize for memory hotplug Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 10/40] mm: page_alloc: add superpageblock fullness lists for allocation steering Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 11/40] mm: page_alloc: steer pageblock stealing to tainted superpageblocks Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 12/40] mm: page_alloc: steer movable allocations to fullest clean superpageblocks Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 13/40] mm: page_alloc: extract claim_whole_block from try_to_claim_block Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 14/40] mm: page_alloc: add per-superpageblock free lists Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 15/40] mm: page_alloc: add background superpageblock defragmentation worker Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 16/40] mm: compaction: walk per-superpageblock free lists for migration targets Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 17/40] mm: page_alloc: superpageblock-aware contiguous and higher order allocation Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 18/40] mm: page_alloc: prevent atomic allocations from tainting clean SPBs Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 19/40] mm: page_alloc: aggressively pack non-movable allocs in tainted SPBs on large systems Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 20/40] mm: page_alloc: prefer reclaim over tainting clean superpageblocks Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 21/40] mm: page_alloc: adopt partial pageblocks from tainted superpageblocks Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 22/40] mm: page_alloc: add CONFIG_DEBUG_VM sanity checks for SPB counters Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 23/40] mm: page_alloc: targeted evacuation and dynamic reserves for tainted SPBs Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 24/40] mm: page_alloc: prevent UNMOVABLE/RECLAIMABLE mixing in pageblocks Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 25/40] mm: trigger deferred SPB evac when atomic allocs would taint a clean SPB Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 26/40] mm: page_alloc: refuse fragmenting fallback for callers with cheap fallback Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 27/40] mm: page_alloc: cross-migratetype buddy borrow within tainted SPBs Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 28/40] mm: page_alloc: drive slab shrink from SPB anti-fragmentation pressure Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 29/40] mm: page_reporting: walk per-superpageblock free lists Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 30/40] mm: show_mem: collect migratetype letters from per-superpageblock lists Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 31/40] mm: page_alloc: per-(zone, order, mt) PASS_1 hint cache Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 33/40] PM: hibernate: walk per-superpageblock free lists in mark_free_pages Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 18:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 34/40] btrfs: allocate eb-attached btree pages as movable Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 17:47 ` Boris Burkov
2026-05-23 15:58 ` David Sterba
2026-05-24 1:43 ` Rik van Riel
2026-05-24 19:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-05-25 6:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 35/40] mm: page_alloc: refuse best-effort high-order allocs servable at lower orders Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 36/40] mm: page_alloc: set ALLOC_NOFRAGMENT on alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 37/40] mm: page_alloc: move spb_get_category and spb_tainted_reserve to mmzone.h Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 38/40] mm: compaction: skip empty tainted superpageblocks as migration source Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 39/40] mm: compaction: respect tainted SPB reserve in destination selection Rik van Riel
2026-05-20 14:59 ` [RFC PATCH 40/40] mm: page_alloc: SPB tracepoint instrumentation [DO-NOT-MERGE] Rik van Riel
2026-05-21 5:09 ` kernel test robot
2026-05-21 7:39 ` [syzbot ci] Re: mm: reliable 1GB page allocation syzbot ci
2026-05-22 11:02 ` [RFC PATCH 00/40] " Usama Arif
2026-05-22 13:55 ` Rik van Riel
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