We have a single node system with node 0 disabled:
Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24
Number of physical nodes 2
Skipping disabled node 0
Node 1 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 00000000fbff0000
NODE_DATA(1) allocated [mem 0xfbfda000-0xfbfeffff]
This causes crashes in memcg when system boots:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
#PF error: [normal kernel read fault]
...
RIP: 0010:list_lru_add+0x94/0x170
...
Call Trace:
d_lru_add+0x44/0x50
dput.part.34+0xfc/0x110
__fput+0x108/0x230
task_work_run+0x9f/0xc0
exit_to_usermode_loop+0xf5/0x100
It is reproducible as far as 4.12. I did not try older kernels. You have
to have a new enough systemd, e.g. 241 (the reason is unknown -- was not
investigated). Cannot be reproduced with systemd 234.
The system crashes because the size of lru array is never updated in
memcg_update_all_list_lrus and the reads are past the zero-sized array,
causing dereferences of random memory.
The root cause are list_lru_memcg_aware checks in the list_lru code.
The test in list_lru_memcg_aware is broken: it assumes node 0 is always
present, but it is not true on some systems as can be seen above.
So fix this by checking the first online node instead of node 0.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/list_lru.c | 6 +-----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/list_lru.c b/mm/list_lru.c
index 0730bf8ff39f..7689910f1a91 100644
--- a/mm/list_lru.c
+++ b/mm/list_lru.c
@@ -37,11 +37,7 @@ static int lru_shrinker_id(struct list_lru *lru)
static inline bool list_lru_memcg_aware(struct list_lru *lru)
{
- /*
- * This needs node 0 to be always present, even
- * in the systems supporting sparse numa ids.
- */
- return !!lru->node[0].memcg_lrus;
+ return !!lru->node[first_online_node].memcg_lrus;
}
static inline struct list_lru_one *
--
2.21.0
