Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This change makes __exclude_unnecessary_pages() more robust by > verifying that the order of a free page is valid before computing the size > of its memory block in the buddy system. > > The order of a free page cannot be larger than (MAX_ORDER - 1) because > the array 'zone.free_area' is of size MAX_ORDER. > > This situation is reproducible with some s390x dumps: > > __exclude_unnecessary_pages: Invalid free page order: pfn=2690c0, order=52, max order=8 > > References: > - https://listman.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2021-September/009204.html > - https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand009.html > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > makedumpfile.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/makedumpfile.c b/makedumpfile.c > index 2ef345879524..56aa026e7b34 100644 > --- a/makedumpfile.c > +++ b/makedumpfile.c > @@ -6457,6 +6457,12 @@ __exclude_unnecessary_pages(unsigned long mem_map, > else if ((info->dump_level & DL_EXCLUDE_FREE) > && info->page_is_buddy > && info->page_is_buddy(flags, _mapcount, private, _count)) { > + if (private >= ARRAY_LENGTH(zone.free_area)) { > + ERRMSG("Invalid free page order: pfn=%llx, order=%lu, max order=%lu\n", > + pfn, private, ARRAY_LENGTH(zone.free_area) - 1); > + free(page_cache); > + return FALSE; > + } > nr_pages = 1 << private; > pfn_counter = &pfn_free; > } > -- > 2.34.1 > > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec I found out when this can happen. If e.g. a driver calls free_pages() and gives an order > max page order, then __free_one_page() stores the given invalid page order in the 'private' member of struct page and gives it back to the buddy allocator. This is what actually happened in the dump i used to reproduce this issue with makedumpfile. Regards Alex _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
