Kernel panic when injecting memory_failure for the global huge_zero_page, when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled, as follows. [ 5.582720] Injecting memory failure for pfn 0x109ff9 at process virtual address 0x20ff9000 [ 5.583786] page:00000000fb053fc3 refcount:2 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x109e00 [ 5.584900] head:00000000fb053fc3 order:9 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0 [ 5.585796] flags: 0x17fffc000010001(locked|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1ffff) [ 5.586712] raw: 017fffc000010001 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000 [ 5.587640] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000002ffffffff 0000000000000000 [ 5.588565] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(is_huge_zero_page(head)) [ 5.589398] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 5.589952] kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:2499! [ 5.590516] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI [ 5.591120] CPU: 6 PID: 553 Comm: split_bug Not tainted 5.18.0-rc1+ #11 [ 5.591904] Hardware name: Alibaba Cloud Alibaba Cloud ECS, BIOS 3288b3c 04/01/2014 [ 5.592817] RIP: 0010:split_huge_page_to_list+0x66a/0x880 [ 5.593469] Code: 84 9b fb ff ff 48 8b 7c 24 08 31 f6 e8 9f 5d 2a 00 b8 b8 02 00 00 e9 e8 fb ff ff 48 c7 c6 e8 47 3c 82 4c b [ 5.595806] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000dcbdf8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 5.596434] RAX: 000000000000003c RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 5.597322] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff823e4c4f RDI: 00000000ffffffff [ 5.598162] RBP: ffff88843fffdb40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000fffeffff [ 5.598999] R10: ffffc90000dcbc48 R11: ffffffff82d68448 R12: ffffea0004278000 [ 5.599849] R13: ffffffff823c6203 R14: 0000000000109ff9 R15: ffffea000427fe40 [ 5.600693] FS: 00007fc375a26740(0000) GS:ffff88842fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 5.601640] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 5.602304] CR2: 00007fc3757c9290 CR3: 0000000102174006 CR4: 00000000003706e0 [ 5.603139] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 5.603977] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 5.604806] Call Trace: [ 5.605101] <TASK> [ 5.605357] ? __irq_work_queue_local+0x39/0x70 [ 5.605904] try_to_split_thp_page+0x3a/0x130 [ 5.606430] memory_failure+0x128/0x800 [ 5.606888] madvise_inject_error.cold+0x8b/0xa1 [ 5.607444] __x64_sys_madvise+0x54/0x60 [ 5.607915] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [ 5.608347] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [ 5.608949] RIP: 0033:0x7fc3754f8bf9 [ 5.609374] Code: 01 00 48 81 c4 80 00 00 00 e9 f1 fe ff ff 0f 1f 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 8 [ 5.611554] RSP: 002b:00007ffeda93a1d8 EFLAGS: 00000217 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000001c [ 5.612441] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007fc3754f8bf9 [ 5.613269] RDX: 0000000000000064 RSI: 0000000000003000 RDI: 0000000020ff9000 [ 5.614108] RBP: 00007ffeda93a200 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 5.614946] R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000217 R12: 0000000000400490 [ 5.615787] R13: 00007ffeda93a2e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 5.616626] </TASK> In fact, huge_zero_page is unhandlable currently in either soft offline or memory failure injection. With CONFIG_DEBUG_VM disabled, huge_zero_page is bailed out when checking HWPoisonHandlable() in get_any_page(), or checking page mapping in split_huge_page_to_list(). This makes huge_zero_page bail out early in madvise_inject_error(), and panic above won't happen again. Reported-by: Abaci <abaci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xu Yu <xuyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/madvise.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 1873616a37d2..03ad50d222e0 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior, for (; start < end; start += size) { unsigned long pfn; - struct page *page; + struct page *page, *head; int ret; ret = get_user_pages_fast(start, 1, 0, &page); @@ -1087,12 +1087,21 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior, return ret; pfn = page_to_pfn(page); + head = compound_head(page); + if (unlikely(is_huge_zero_page(head))) { + pr_warn("Unhandlable attempt to %s pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n", + behavior == MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE ? "soft offline" : + "inject memory failure for", + pfn, start); + return -EINVAL; + } + /* * When soft offlining hugepages, after migrating the page * we dissolve it, therefore in the second loop "page" will * no longer be a compound page. */ - size = page_size(compound_head(page)); + size = page_size(head); if (behavior == MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE) { pr_info("Soft offlining pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n", -- 2.20.1.2432.ga663e714