On Tue 21-04-20 00:14:43, Verma, Vishal L wrote: > On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 08:38 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > 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! > > Thank you for the review Michal. > > Should this go via Andrew and the mm tree? Yes, this is the usual route for memory hotplug patches. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs