Commit 787af64d05cd ("mm: page_alloc: validate buddy before check its migratetype.") added buddy check code. But unfortunately, this fix isn't backported to linux-5.17.y and the former stable branches. The reason is it added wrong fixes message: Fixes: 1dd214b8f21c ("mm: page_alloc: avoid merging non-fallbackable pageblocks with others") Actually, this issue is involved by commit: commit d9dddbf55667 ("mm/page_alloc: prevent merging between isolated and other pageblocks") For RISC-V arch, the first 2M is reserved for sbi, so the start PFN is 512, but it got buddy PFN 0 for PFN 0x2000: 0 = 0x2000 ^ (1 << 12) With the illegal buddy PFN 0, it got an illegal buddy page, which caused crash in __get_pfnblock_flags_mask(). With the patch, it can avoid the calling of get_pageblock_migratetype() if it isn't buddy page. Fixes: d9dddbf55667 ("mm/page_alloc: prevent merging between isolated and other pageblocks") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: zjb194813@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: tianhu.hh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index b1caa1c6c887..5b423caa68fd 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1129,6 +1129,9 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page, buddy_pfn = __find_buddy_pfn(pfn, order); buddy = page + (buddy_pfn - pfn); + + if (!page_is_buddy(page, buddy, order)) + goto done_merging; buddy_mt = get_pageblock_migratetype(buddy); if (migratetype != buddy_mt -- 2.17.1