Re: [PATCH] mm: fix panic in __alloc_pages

Michal Hocko
2021-11-02T07:47:30Z

[CC Oscar and David]

On Mon 01-11-21 13:13:12, Alexey Makhalov wrote:
> There is a kernel panic caused by __alloc_pages() accessing
> uninitialized NODE_DATA(nid). Uninitialized node data exists
> during the time when CPU with memoryless node was added but
> not onlined yet. Panic can be easy reproduced by disabling
> udev rule for automatic onlining hot added CPU followed by
> CPU with memoryless node hot add.
>
> This is a panic caused by percpu code doing allocations for
> all possible CPUs and hitting this issue:
>
> CPU2 has been hot-added
> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001608
> #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> PGD 0 P4D 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G E 5.15.0-rc7+ #11
> Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware7,1/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS VMW
>
> RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x127/0x290

Could you resolve this into a specific line of the source code please?

> Code: 4c 89 f0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 44 89 e0 48 8b 55 b8 c1 e8 0c 83 e0 01 88 45 d0 4c 89 c8 48 85 d2 0f 85 1a 01 00 00 <45> 3b 41 08 0f 82 10 01 00 00 48 89 45 c0 48 8b 00 44 89 e2 81 e2
> RSP: 0018:ffffc900006f3bc8 EFLAGS: 00010246
> RAX: 0000000000001600 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000cc2
> RBP: ffffc900006f3c18 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000001600
> R10: ffffc900006f3a40 R11: ffff88813c9fffe8 R12: 0000000000000cc2
> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000cc2
> FS: 00007f27ead70500(0000) GS:ffff88807ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 0000000000001608 CR3: 000000000582c003 CR4: 00000000001706b0
> Call Trace:
> pcpu_alloc_pages.constprop.0+0xe4/0x1c0
> pcpu_populate_chunk+0x33/0xb0
> pcpu_alloc+0x4d3/0x6f0
> __alloc_percpu_gfp+0xd/0x10
> alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info+0x54/0xb0
> mem_cgroup_alloc+0xed/0x2f0
> mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0x33/0x2f0
> css_create+0x3a/0x1f0
> cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x12b/0x150
> cgroup_mkdir+0xdd/0x110
> kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x4f/0x80
> vfs_mkdir+0x178/0x230
> do_mkdirat+0xfd/0x120
> __x64_sys_mkdir+0x47/0x70
> ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x21/0x50
> do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
>
> Node can be in one of the following states:
> 1. not present (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
> 2. present, but offline (nid > NUMA_NO_NODE, node_online(nid) == 0,
> NODE_DATA(nid) == NULL)
> 3. present and online (nid > NUMA_NO_NODE, node_online(nid) > 0,
> NODE_DATA(nid) != NULL)
>
> alloc_page_{bulk_array}node() functions verify for nid validity only
> and do not check if nid is online. Enhanced verification check allows
> to handle page allocation when node is in 2nd state.

I do not think this is a correct approach. We should make sure that the
proper fallback node is used instead. This means that the zone list is
initialized properly. IIRC this has been a problem in the past and it
has been fixed. The initialization code is quite subtle though so it is
possible that this got broken again.

> Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> include/linux/gfp.h | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> index 55b2ec1f9..34a5a7def 100644
> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> @@ -551,7 +551,8 @@ alloc_pages_bulk_array(gfp_t gfp, unsigned long nr_pages, struct page **page_arr
> static inline unsigned long
> alloc_pages_bulk_array_node(gfp_t gfp, int nid, unsigned long nr_pages, struct page **page_array)
> {
> - if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
> + if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE || (!node_online(nid) &&
> + !(gfp & __GFP_THISNODE)))
> nid = numa_mem_id();
>
> return __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp, nid, NULL, nr_pages, NULL, page_array);
> @@ -578,7 +579,8 @@ __alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
> static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> unsigned int order)
> {
> - if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
> + if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE || (!node_online(nid) &&
> + !(gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE)))
> nid = numa_mem_id();
>
> return __alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp_mask, order);
> --
> 2.30.0

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs