Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 62/95] mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section

Sasha Levin
2019-05-07T16:58:04Z

On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 09:31:10AM -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
>On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:40 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 2830bf6f05fb3e05bc4743274b806c821807a684 ]
>>
>> If memory end is not aligned with the sparse memory section boundary,
>> the mapping of such a section is only partly initialized. This may lead
>> to VM_BUG_ON due to uninitialized struct page access from
>> is_mem_section_removable() or test_pages_in_a_zone() function triggered
>> by memory_hotplug sysfs handlers:
>>
>> Here are the the panic examples:
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS=y
>>
>> kernel parameter mem=2050M
>> --------------------------
>> page:000003d082008000 is uninitialized and poisoned
>> page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
>> Call Trace:
>> ( test_pages_in_a_zone+0xde/0x160)
>> show_valid_zones+0x5c/0x190
>> 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:
>> test_pages_in_a_zone+0xde/0x160
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops
>>
>> kernel parameter mem=3075M
>> --------------------------
>> 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
>>
>> Fix the problem by initializing the last memory section of each zone in
>> memmap_init_zone() till the very end, even if it goes beyond the zone end.
>>
>> Michal said:
>>
>> : This has alwways been problem AFAIU. It just went unnoticed because we
>> : have zeroed memmaps during allocation before f7f99100d8d9 ("mm: stop
>> : zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap") and so the above test
>> : would simply skip these ranges as belonging to zone 0 or provided a
>> : garbage.
>> :
>> : So I guess we do care for post f7f99100d8d9 kernels mostly and
>> : therefore Fixes: f7f99100d8d9 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during
>> : allocation in vmemmap")
>>
>> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181212172712.34019-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
>> Fixes: f7f99100d8d9 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap")
>> Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
>> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
>> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>> Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
>> Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
>> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
>> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com>
>> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
>> ---
>> mm/page_alloc.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
>
>Wasn't this patch reverted in Linus's tree for causing a regression on
>some platforms? If so I'm not sure we should pull this in as a
>candidate for stable should we, or am I missing something?

I saw a follow-up patch that should be queued too, but I didn't see that
this one got reverted.

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Thanks,
Sasha