When we initialize the namespace, if we support altmap, we don't initialize all the backing struct page where as while releasing the namespace we look at some of these uninitilized struct page. This results in a kernel crash as below. kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1034! cpu 0x2: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c00000024146b870] pc: c0000000003788f8: devm_memremap_pages_release+0x258/0x3a0 lr: c0000000003788f4: devm_memremap_pages_release+0x254/0x3a0 sp: c00000024146bb00 msr: 800000000282b033 current = 0xc000000241382f00 paca = 0xc00000003fffd680 irqmask: 0x03 irq_happened: 0x01 pid = 4114, comm = ndctl c0000000009bf8c0 devm_action_release+0x30/0x50 c0000000009c0938 release_nodes+0x268/0x2d0 c0000000009b95b4 device_release_driver_internal+0x164/0x230 c0000000009b638c unbind_store+0x13c/0x190 c0000000009b4f44 drv_attr_store+0x44/0x60 c00000000058ccc0 sysfs_kf_write+0x70/0xa0 c00000000058b52c kernfs_fop_write+0x1ac/0x290 c0000000004a415c __vfs_write+0x3c/0x70 c0000000004a85ac vfs_write+0xec/0x200 c0000000004a8920 ksys_write+0x80/0x130 c00000000000bee4 system_call+0x5c/0x70 Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 59661106da16..892eabe1ec13 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5740,8 +5740,7 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone, #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE /* - * Honor reservation requested by the driver for this ZONE_DEVICE - * memory. We limit the total number of pages to initialize to just + * We limit the total number of pages to initialize to just * those that might contain the memory mapping. We will defer the * ZONE_DEVICE page initialization until after we have released * the hotplug lock. @@ -5750,8 +5749,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone, if (!altmap) return; - if (start_pfn == altmap->base_pfn) - start_pfn += altmap->reserve; end_pfn = altmap->base_pfn + vmem_altmap_offset(altmap); } #endif -- 2.21.0