Re: [lib/stackdepot] 1cd8ce52c5: BUG:unable_to_handle_page_fault_for_address

[Mike Rapoport]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:33:03AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 10/14/21 10:54, kernel test robot wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Greeting,
> > 
> > FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-9):
> > 
> > commit: 1cd8ce52c520c26c513899fb5aee42b8e5f60d0d ("[PATCH v2] lib/stackdepot: allow optional init and stack_table allocation by kvmalloc()")
> > url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Vlastimil-Babka/lib-stackdepot-allow-optional-init-and-stack_table-allocation-by-kvmalloc/20211012-170816
> > base: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel for-linux-next
> > 
> > in testcase: rcutorture
> > version: 
> > with following parameters:
> > 
> > 	runtime: 300s
> > 	test: cpuhotplug
> > 	torture_type: srcud
> > 
> > test-description: rcutorture is rcutorture kernel module load/unload test.
> > test-url: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
> > 
> > 
> > on test machine: qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 4G
> > 
> > caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
> > 
> > 
> > +---------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> > |                                             | a94a6d76c9 | 1cd8ce52c5 |
> > +---------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> > | boot_successes                              | 30         | 0          |
> > | boot_failures                               | 0          | 7          |
> > | BUG:kernel_NULL_pointer_dereference,address | 0          | 2          |
> > | Oops:#[##]                                  | 0          | 7          |
> > | EIP:stack_depot_save                        | 0          | 7          |
> > | Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception    | 0          | 7          |
> > | BUG:unable_to_handle_page_fault_for_address | 0          | 5          |
> > +---------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> > 
> > 
> > If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > [  319.147926][  T259] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0ec74110
> > [  319.149309][  T259] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> > [  319.150362][  T259] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> > [  319.151372][  T259] *pde = 00000000
> > [  319.151964][  T259] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
> > [  319.152617][  T259] CPU: 0 PID: 259 Comm: systemd-rc-loca Not tainted 5.15.0-rc1-00270-g1cd8ce52c520 #1
> > [  319.154514][  T259] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
> > [  319.156200][  T259] EIP: stack_depot_save+0x12a/0x4d0
> 
> 
> Cc Mike Rapoport, looks like:
> - memblock_alloc() should have failed (I think, because page allocator
>   already took over?), but didn't. So apparently we got some area that wasn't
>   fully mapped.
> - using slab_is_available() is not accurate enough to detect when to use
> memblock or page allocator (kvmalloc in case of my patch). I have used it
> because memblock_alloc_internal() checks the same condition to issue a warning.
> 
> Relevant part of dmesg.xz that was attached:
> [    1.589075][    T0] Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes, linear)
> [    1.592396][    T0] Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes, linear)
> [    2.916844][    T0] allocated 31496920 bytes of page_ext
> 
> - this means we were allocating from page allocator by alloc_pages_exact_nid() already
> 
> [    2.918197][    T0] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:on
> [    2.919683][    T0] mem auto-init: clearing system memory may take some time...
> [    2.921239][    T0] Initializing HighMem for node 0 (000b67fe:000bffe0)
> [   23.023619][    T0] Initializing Movable for node 0 (00000000:00000000)
> [  245.194520][    T0] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok.
> [  245.196847][    T0] Memory: 2914460K/3145208K available (20645K kernel code, 5953K rwdata, 12624K rodata, 760K init, 8112K bss, 230748K reserved, 0K cma-reserved, 155528K highmem)
> [  245.200521][    T0] Stack Depot allocating hash table with memblock_alloc
> 
> - initializing stack depot as part of initializing page_owner, uses memblock_alloc()
>   because slab_is_available() is still false
> 
> [  245.212005][    T0] Node 0, zone   Normal: page owner found early allocated 0 pages
> [  245.213867][    T0] Node 0, zone  HighMem: page owner found early allocated 0 pages
> [  245.216126][    T0] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
> 
> - printed by slub's kmem_cache_init() after create_kmalloc_caches() setting slab_state
>   to UP, making slab_is_available() true, but too late
> 
> In my local testing of the patch, when stackdepot was initialized through
> page owner init, it was using kvmalloc() so slab_is_available() was true.
> Looks like the exact order of slab vs page_owner alloc is non-deterministic,
> could be arch-dependent or just random ordering of init calls. A wrong order
> will exploit the apparent fact that slab_is_available() is not a good
> indicator of using memblock vs page allocator, and we would need a better one.
> Thoughts?

The order of slab vs page_owner is deterministic, but it is different for
FLATMEM and SPARSEMEM. And page_ext_init_flatmem_late() that initializes
page_ext for FLATMEM is called exactly between buddy and slab setup:

static void __init mm_init(void)
{
	...

	mem_init();
	mem_init_print_info();
	/* page_owner must be initialized after buddy is ready */
	page_ext_init_flatmem_late();
	kmem_cache_init();

	...
}

I've stared for a while at page_ext init and it seems that the
page_ext_init_flatmem_late() can be simply dropped because there is anyway
a call to invoke_init_callbacks() in page_ext_init() that is called much
later in the boot process.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.