On Thu 16-04-20 16:54:38, Vishal Verma wrote:
> A misbehaving qemu created a situation where the ACPI SRAT table
> advertised one fewer proximity domains than intended. The NFIT table did
> describe all the expected proximity domains. This caused the device dax
> driver to assign an impossible target_node to the device, and when
> hotplugged as system memory, this would fail with the following
> signature:
>
> [ +0.001627] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000088
> [ +0.001331] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> [ +0.000975] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> [ +0.000976] PGD 80000001767d4067 P4D 80000001767d4067 PUD 10e0c4067 PMD 0
> [ +0.001338] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
> [ +0.000676] CPU: 4 PID: 22737 Comm: kswapd3 Tainted: G O 5.6.0-rc5 #9
> [ +0.001457] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
> BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> [ +0.001990] RIP: 0010:prepare_kswapd_sleep+0x7c/0xc0
> [ +0.000780] Code: 89 df e8 87 fd ff ff 89 c2 31 c0 84 d2 74 e6 0f 1f 44
> 00 00 48 8b 05 fb af 7a 01 48 63 93 88 1d 01 00 48 8b
> 84 d0 20 0f 00 00 <48> 3b 98 88 00 00 00 75 28 f0 80 a0
> 80 00 00 00 fe f0 80 a3 38 20
> [ +0.002877] RSP: 0018:ffffc900017a3e78 EFLAGS: 00010202
> [ +0.000805] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8881209e0000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> [ +0.001115] RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8881209e0e80
> [ +0.001098] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000008000
> [ +0.001092] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: 0000000000000003
> [ +0.001092] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffc900017a3ec8
> [ +0.001091] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888318c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ +0.001275] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ +0.000882] CR2: 0000000000000088 CR3: 0000000120b50002 CR4: 00000000001606e0
> [ +0.001095] Call Trace:
> [ +0.000388] kswapd+0x103/0x520
> [ +0.000494] ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80
> [ +0.000547] ? balance_pgdat+0x5a0/0x5a0
> [ +0.000607] kthread+0x120/0x140
> [ +0.000508] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x60/0x60
> [ +0.000706] ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
>
> Add a check in the add_memory path to fail if the node to which we
> are adding memory is in the node_possible_map
>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
We can start thiking on how to handle such a misconfiguration more
gracefully when we see this hitting in real world and find out more why
that happens. E.g. if a FW/BIOS are not fixable then we can implement
some fallback strategy but this should be a good start.
Thanks!
> ---
> mm/memory_hotplug.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> v2:
> - Centralize the check in the add_memory path (David)
> - Instead of failing, add the memory to a nearby node, while warning
> (and tainting) to call out attention to the firmware bug (Dan)
>
> v3:
> - Fix the CONFIG_NUMA=n case, and use node 0 as the final fallback (Dan)
>
> v4:
> - Error out instead of being smart about picking a node that wasn't
> asked for (Michal)
>
> v5:
> - Change the return code to -EINVAL (David)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index 0a54ffac8c68..e07b80d149db 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -1005,6 +1005,11 @@ int __ref add_memory_resource(int nid, struct resource *res)
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> + if (!node_possible(nid)) {
> + WARN(1, "node %d was absent from the node_possible_map\n", nid);
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> mem_hotplug_begin();
>
> /*
> --
> 2.21.1
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
