We shouldn't allocate pages on a unavailable node. Add a check for this in __alloc_pages_node and return NULL to avoid issues further down the callchain. Also update the VM_WARN_ON in __alloc_pages_node which could skip this warn if the gfp_mask is not GFP_THISNODE. Co-developed-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/gfp.h | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index b976c4177299..e7e18f6d0d9d 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -565,7 +565,10 @@ static inline struct page * __alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order) { VM_BUG_ON(nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES); - VM_WARN_ON((gfp_mask & __GFP_THISNODE) && !node_online(nid)); + VM_WARN_ON(!node_online(nid)); + + if (!node_online(nid)) + return NULL; return __alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order, nid, NULL); } -- 2.33.1