Re: [PATCH RFC 06/35] mm/page_alloc: reject unreasonable folio/compound page sizes in alloc_contig_range_noprof()

Balbir Singh
2025-11-19T08:27:03Z

On 8/22/25 06:06, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Let's reject them early, which in turn makes folio_alloc_gigantic() reject
> them properly.
>
> To avoid converting from order to nr_pages, let's just add MAX_FOLIO_ORDER
> and calculate MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES based on that.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 6 ++++--
> mm/page_alloc.c | 5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 00c8a54127d37..77737cbf2216a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -2055,11 +2055,13 @@ static inline long folio_nr_pages(const struct folio *folio)
>
> /* Only hugetlbfs can allocate folios larger than MAX_ORDER */
> #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
> -#define MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES (1UL << PUD_ORDER)
> +#define MAX_FOLIO_ORDER PUD_ORDER

Do we need to check for CONTIG_ALLOC as well with CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE?

> #else
> -#define MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
> +#define MAX_FOLIO_ORDER MAX_PAGE_ORDER
> #endif
>
> +#define MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES (1UL << MAX_FOLIO_ORDER)
> +
> /*
> * compound_nr() returns the number of pages in this potentially compound
> * page. compound_nr() can be called on a tail page, and is defined to
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index ca9e6b9633f79..1e6ae4c395b30 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -6833,6 +6833,7 @@ static int __alloc_contig_verify_gfp_mask(gfp_t gfp_mask, gfp_t *gfp_cc_mask)
> int alloc_contig_range_noprof(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> acr_flags_t alloc_flags, gfp_t gfp_mask)
> {
> + const unsigned int order = ilog2(end - start);

Do we need a VM_WARN_ON(end < start)?

> unsigned long outer_start, outer_end;
> int ret = 0;
>
> @@ -6850,6 +6851,9 @@ int alloc_contig_range_noprof(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> PB_ISOLATE_MODE_CMA_ALLOC :
> PB_ISOLATE_MODE_OTHER;
>
> + if (WARN_ON_ONCE((gfp_mask & __GFP_COMP) && order > MAX_FOLIO_ORDER))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> gfp_mask = current_gfp_context(gfp_mask);
> if (__alloc_contig_verify_gfp_mask(gfp_mask, (gfp_t *)&cc.gfp_mask))
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -6947,7 +6951,6 @@ int alloc_contig_range_noprof(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> free_contig_range(end, outer_end - end);
> } else if (start == outer_start && end == outer_end && is_power_of_2(end - start)) {
> struct page *head = pfn_to_page(start);
> - int order = ilog2(end - start);
>
> check_new_pages(head, order);
> prep_new_page(head, order, gfp_mask, 0);

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>

Balbir