From: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: Tear down the direct map when memory hot add fails
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 19:00:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <au_l5MRyDbYfsUVe@chrisdown.name> (raw)
arch_add_memory() sets up the direct map before calling add_pages().
If add_pages() fails, the range stays mapped and any page tables
allocated for it are leaked. A later hot add can reuse the stale
mapping.
Remove the direct mapping on failure.
Fixes: 45e0b78b0532 ("[PATCH] hot-add-mem x86_64: use CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE")
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
---
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 8b6d86fb5a42..846cb34b38dd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -989,15 +989,23 @@ int add_pages(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
return ret;
}
+static void __meminit kernel_physical_mapping_remove(unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end);
+
int arch_add_memory(int nid, u64 start, u64 size,
struct mhp_params *params)
{
unsigned long start_pfn = start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
unsigned long nr_pages = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ int ret;
init_memory_mapping(start, start + size, params->pgprot);
- return add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
+ ret = add_pages(nid, start_pfn, nr_pages, params);
+ if (ret)
+ kernel_physical_mapping_remove(start, start + size);
+
+ return ret;
}
static void __meminit free_pagetable(struct page *page)
base-commit: fa4ad798f6f681031775266044ba1b0cf3c670bd
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-08 3:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-08 3:00 Chris Down [this message]
2026-11-08 16:46 ` [PATCH] x86/mm: Tear down the direct map when memory hot add fails Harry Yoo
2026-11-09 3:44 ` Muchun Song
2026-11-09 9:13 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-11-09 9:34 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-11-09 11:52 ` Lance Yang
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