Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/memory-failure.c: Don't access uninitialized memmaps in memory_failure()
From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Thu Oct 10 2019 - 03:22:24 EST
On 10.10.19 02:26, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 04:24:35PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> We should check for pfn_to_online_page() to not access uninitialized
>> memmaps. Reshuffle the code so we don't have to duplicate the error
>> message.
>>
>> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/memory-failure.c | 14 ++++++++------
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
>> index 7ef849da8278..e866e6e5660b 100644
>> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
>> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
>> @@ -1253,17 +1253,19 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>> if (!sysctl_memory_failure_recovery)
>> panic("Memory failure on page %lx", pfn);
>>
>> - if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) {
>> + p = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);
>> + if (!p) {
>> + if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
>> + pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pfn, NULL);
>> + if (pgmap)
>> + return memory_failure_dev_pagemap(pfn, flags,
>> + pgmap);
>> + }
>> pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: memory outside kernel control\n",
>> pfn);
>> return -ENXIO;
>> }
>>
>> - pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pfn, NULL);
>> - if (pgmap)
>> - return memory_failure_dev_pagemap(pfn, flags, pgmap);
>> -
>> - p = pfn_to_page(pfn);
>
> This change seems to assume that memory_failure_dev_pagemap() is never
> called for online pages. Is it an intended behavior?
> Or the concept "online pages" is not applicable to zone device pages?
Yes, that's the real culprit. ZONE_DEVICE/devmem pages are never online
(SECTION_IS_ONLINE). The terminology "online" only applies to pages that
were given to the buddy. And as we support sup-section hotadd for
devmem, we cannot easily make use of the section flag it. I already
proposed somewhere to convert SECTION_IS_ONLINE to a subsection bitmap
and call it something like pfn_active().
pfn_online() would then be "pfn_active() && zone != ZONE_DEVICE". And we
could use pfn_active() everywhere to test for initialized memmaps (well,
besides some special cases like device reserved memory that does not
span full sub-sections). Until now, nobody volunteered and I have other
things to do.
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb