Re: [PATCH] mm: fix invalid node in alloc_migrate_target()

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On 03/26/2016 06:31 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
On 2016/3/26 3:22, Andrew Morton wrote:

On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 14:56:04 +0800 Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It is incorrect to use next_node to find a target node, it will
return MAX_NUMNODES or invalid node. This will lead to crash in
buddy system allocation.

...

--- a/mm/page_isolation.c
+++ b/mm/page_isolation.c
@@ -289,11 +289,11 @@ struct page *alloc_migrate_target(struct page *page, unsigned long private,
  	 * now as a simple work-around, we use the next node for destination.
  	 */
  	if (PageHuge(page)) {
-		nodemask_t src = nodemask_of_node(page_to_nid(page));
-		nodemask_t dst;
-		nodes_complement(dst, src);
+		int node = next_online_node(page_to_nid(page));
+		if (node == MAX_NUMNODES)
+			node = first_online_node;
  		return alloc_huge_page_node(page_hstate(compound_head(page)),
-					    next_node(page_to_nid(page), dst));
+					    node);
  	}

  	if (PageHighMem(page))

Indeed.  Can you tell us more about this circumstances under which the
kernel will crash?  I need to decide which kernel version(s) need the
patch, but the changelog doesn't contain the info needed to make this
decision (it should).


Hi Andrew,

I read the code v4.4, and find the following path maybe trigger the bug.

alloc_migrate_target()
	alloc_huge_page_node()  // the node may be offline or MAX_NUMNODES
		__alloc_buddy_huge_page_no_mpol()
			__alloc_buddy_huge_page()
				__hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page()

The code in this functions seems to come from 099730d67417d ("mm, hugetlb: use memory policy when available") by Dave Hansen (adding to CC), which was indeed merged in 4.4-rc1.

However, alloc_pages_node() is only called in the block guarded by:

if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) || !vma) {

The rather weird "!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA)" part comes from immediate followup commit e0ec90ee7e6f ("mm, hugetlbfs: optimize when NUMA=n")

So I doubt the code path here can actually happen. But it's fragile and confusing nevertheless.

					alloc_pages_node()
						__alloc_pages_node()
							VM_BUG_ON(nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES);
							VM_WARN_ON(!node_online(nid));

Thanks,
Xishi Qiu


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