Re: [mm/slub] ae107fa919: BUG:unable_to_handle_page_fault_for_address

Mike Rapoport
2022-03-12T12:06:32Z

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:04:30AM +0000, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 10:21:25AM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > On 3/12/22 02:10, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 04:46:00PM +0000, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> > >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 04:36:47PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > >>> On 3/11/22 15:54, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> > >>>> On Wed, Mar 09, 2022 at 10:15:31AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Greeting,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-9):
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> commit: ae107fa91914f098cd54ab77e68f83dd6259e901 ("mm/slub: use stackdepot to save stack trace in objects")
> > >>>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/linux.git slub-stackdepot-v3r0
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> in testcase: boot
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 16G
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> [+Cc Vlastimil and linux-mm]
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks.
> > >>> lkp folks: it would be nice if I was CC'd automatically on this, it's a
> > >>> commit from my git tree and with by s-o-b :)
> > >>>
> > >>>> I _strongly_ suspect that this is because we don't initialize
> > >>>> stack_table[i] = NULL when we allocate it from memblock_alloc().
> > >>>
> > >>> No, Mike (CC'd) suggested to drop the array init cycle, because
> > >>> memblock_alloc would zero the area anyway.
> > >>
> > >> Ah, you are right. My mistake.
> > >>
> > >>> There has to be a different
> > >>> reason. Wondering if dmesg contains the stack depot initialization message
> > >>> at all...
> > >>
> > >> I think I found the reason.
> > >> This is because of CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON.
> > >> It can enable debugging without passing boot parameter.
> > >>
> > >> if CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=y && slub_debug is not passed, we do not call
> > >> stack_depot_want_early_init(), but the debugging flags are set.
> > >>
> > >> And we only call stack_depot_init() later in kmem_cache_create_usercopy().
> > >>
> > >> so it crashed while creating boot cache.
> > >
> > > I tested this, and this was the reason.
> > > It crashed on CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=y because stackdepot always assume
> > > that it was initialized in boot step, or failed
> > > (stack_depot_disable=true).
> > >
> > > But as it didn't even tried to initialize it, stack_table == NULL &&
> > > stack_depot_disable == false. So accessing *(NULL + <hash value>)
> >
> > Thanks for finding the cause!
> >
>
> ;)
>
> > > Ideas? implementing something like kmem_cache_init_early() again?
> >
> > I think we could simply make CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON select/depend on
> > STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT?
>
> Oh, sounds better.
>
> If we make CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON select STACK_DEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT,
> that is simple solution. but stackdepot will be initialized on
> slub_debug=- too.
>
> But I think no one will set CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=y if not debugging...

If memory wasted by stack_table is a real concern, we may free it after
parsing slub_debug or add a condition taking into account
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON and slub_debug=- to the

if (slub_debug & SLAB_STORE_USER)
stack_depot_want_early_init();

But I agree that if somebody runs a kernel with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON=y, the
goal is to have slub debugging on, so making CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON select
STACK_DEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT totally makes sense to me.

> I don't think making CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON depend on
> CONFIG_STACKDEPOT_ALWAYS_INIT is good solution. only KASAN selects it.
>
> --
> Thank you, You are awesome!
> Hyeonggon :-)

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.