On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 01:58:31PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
> ZONE_MOVABLE uses the remaining memory in each node. It's starting pfn
> is also aligned to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES. It is possible for the remaining
> memory in a node to be less than MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES, meaning there is
> not enough room for ZONE_MOVABLE on that node.
>
> Unfortunately this condition is not checked for. This leads to
> zone_movable_pfn[] getting set to a pfn greater than the last pfn in a
> node.
>
> calculate_node_totalpages() then sets zone->present_pages to be greater
> than zone->spanned_pages which is invalid, as spanned_pages represents
> the maximum number of pages in a zone assuming no holes.
>
> Subsequently it is possible free_area_init_core() will observe a zone of
> size zero with present pages. In this case it will skip setting up the
> zone, including the initialisation of free_lists[].
>
> However populated_zone() checks zone->present_pages to see if a zone has
> memory available. This is used by iterators such as
> walk_zones_in_node(). pagetypeinfo_showfree() uses this to walk the
> free_list of each zone in each node, which are assumed to be initialised
> due to the zone not being empty. As free_area_init_core() never
> initialised the free_lists[] this results in the following kernel crash
> when trying to read /proc/pagetypeinfo:
>
> [ 67.534914] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
> [ 67.535429] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> [ 67.535789] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> [ 67.536128] PGD 0 P4D 0
> [ 67.536305] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NOPTI
> [ 67.536696] CPU: 0 PID: 456 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.16.0 #461
> [ 67.537096] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
> [ 67.537638] RIP: 0010:pagetypeinfo_show+0x163/0x460
> [ 67.537992] Code: 9e 82 e8 80 57 0e 00 49 8b 06 b9 01 00 00 00 4c 39 f0 75 16 e9 65 02 00 00 48 83 c1 01 48 81 f9 a0 86 01 00 0f 84 48 02 00 00 <48> 8b 00 4c 39 f0 75 e7 48 c7 c2 80 a2 e2 82 48 c7 c6 79 ef e3 82
> [ 67.538259] RSP: 0018:ffffc90001c4bd10 EFLAGS: 00010003
> [ 67.538259] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88801105f638 RCX: 0000000000000001
> [ 67.538259] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000000000000068b RDI: ffff8880163dc68b
> [ 67.538259] RBP: ffffc90001c4bd90 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff8880163dc67e
> [ 67.538259] R10: 656c6261766f6d6e R11: 6c6261766f6d6e55 R12: ffff88807ffb4a00
> [ 67.538259] R13: ffff88807ffb49f8 R14: ffff88807ffb4580 R15: ffff88807ffb3000
> [ 67.538259] FS: 00007f9c83eff5c0(0000) GS:ffff88807dc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [ 67.538259] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [ 67.538259] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000013c8e000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
> [ 67.538259] Call Trace:
> [ 67.538259] <TASK>
> [ 67.538259] seq_read_iter+0x128/0x460
> [ 67.538259] ? aa_file_perm+0x1af/0x5f0
> [ 67.538259] proc_reg_read_iter+0x51/0x80
> [ 67.538259] ? lock_is_held_type+0xea/0x140
> [ 67.538259] new_sync_read+0x113/0x1a0
> [ 67.538259] vfs_read+0x136/0x1d0
> [ 67.538259] ksys_read+0x70/0xf0
> [ 67.538259] __x64_sys_read+0x1a/0x20
> [ 67.538259] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
> [ 67.538259] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
> [ 67.538259] RIP: 0033:0x7f9c83e23cce
> [ 67.538259] Code: c0 e9 b6 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d 6e 13 0a 00 e8 c9 e3 01 00 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 5a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 28
> [ 67.538259] RSP: 002b:00007fff116e1a08 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
> [ 67.538259] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007f9c83e23cce
> [ 67.538259] RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007f9c83a2c000 RDI: 0000000000000003
> [ 67.538259] RBP: 00007f9c83a2c000 R08: 00007f9c83a2b010 R09: 0000000000000000
> [ 67.538259] R10: 00007f9c83f2d7d0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
> [ 67.538259] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000
> [ 67.538259] </TASK>
>
> Fix this by checking that the aligned zone_movable_pfn[] does not exceed
> the end of the node, and if it does skip creating a movable zone on this
> node.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 2a1e274acf0b ("Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone")
Seems reasonable;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
