When we have holes in a normal memory zone, we could endup having
cached_migrate_pfns which may not necessarily be valid, under heavy memory
pressure with swapping enabled ( via __reset_isolation_suitable(), triggered
by kswapd).
Later if we fail to find a page via fast_isolate_freepages(), we may
end up using the migrate_pfn we started the search with, as valid
page. This could lead to accessing NULL pointer derefernces like below,
due to an invalid mem_section pointer.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 [47/1825]
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x96000004
Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
CM = 0, WnR = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 0000000082f94ae9
[0000000000000008] pgd=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
...
CPU: 10 PID: 6080 Comm: qemu-system-aar Not tainted 510-rc1+ #6
Hardware name: AmpereComputing(R) OSPREY EV-883832-X3-0001/OSPREY, BIOS 4819 09/25/2018
pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO)
pc : set_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x58/0xe8
lr : compaction_alloc+0x300/0x950
[...]
Process qemu-system-aar (pid: 6080, stack limit = 0x0000000095070da5)
Call trace:
set_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x58/0xe8
compaction_alloc+0x300/0x950
migrate_pages+0x1a4/0xbb0
compact_zone+0x750/0xde8
compact_zone_order+0xd8/0x118
try_to_compact_pages+0xb4/0x290
__alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x84/0x1e0
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x5e0/0xe18
alloc_pages_vma+0x1cc/0x210
do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x108/0x7c8
__handle_mm_fault+0xdd4/0x1190
handle_mm_fault+0x114/0x1c0
__get_user_pages+0x198/0x3c0
get_user_pages_unlocked+0xb4/0x1d8
__gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x12c/0x3b8
gfn_to_pfn_prot+0x4c/0x60
kvm_handle_guest_abort+0x4b0/0xcd8
handle_exit+0x140/0x1b8
kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x260/0x768
kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x490/0x898
do_vfs_ioctl+0xc4/0x898
ksys_ioctl+0x8c/0xa0
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0x28/0x38
el0_svc_common+0x74/0x118
el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78
el0_svc+0x8/0xc
Code: f8607840 f100001f 8b011401 9a801020 (f9400400)
---[ end trace af6a35219325a9b6 ]---
The issue was reported on an arm64 server with 128GB with holes in the zone
(e.g, [32GB@4GB, 96GB@544GB]), with a swap device enabled, while running 100 KVM
guest instances.
This patch fixes the issue by ensuring that the page belongs to a valid PFN
when we fallback to using the lower limit of the scan range upon failure in
fast_isolate_freepages().
Fixes: 5a811889de10f1eb ("mm, compaction: use free lists to quickly locate a migration target")
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/compaction.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 9febc8c..9e1b9ac 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -1399,7 +1399,7 @@ fast_isolate_freepages(struct compact_control *cc)
page = pfn_to_page(highest);
cc->free_pfn = highest;
} else {
- if (cc->direct_compaction) {
+ if (cc->direct_compaction && pfn_valid(min_pfn)) {
page = pfn_to_page(min_pfn);
cc->free_pfn = min_pfn;
}
--
2.7.4
