With a kernel configured with ARM64_64K_PAGES && !TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE, the following is triggered at early boot: SMP: Total of 8 processors activated. devtmpfs: initialized Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008 pgd = fffffe0000050000 [00000008] *pgd=00000043fba00003, *pmd=00000043fba00003, *pte=00e0000078010407 Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.15.0-rc864k+ #44 task: fffffe03bc040000 ti: fffffe03bc080000 task.ti: fffffe03bc080000 PC is at __list_add+0x10/0xd4 LR is at free_one_page+0x270/0x638 ... Call trace: [<fffffe00003ee970>] __list_add+0x10/0xd4 [<fffffe000019c478>] free_one_page+0x26c/0x638 [<fffffe000019c8c8>] __free_pages_ok.part.52+0x84/0xbc [<fffffe000019d5e8>] __free_pages+0x74/0xbc [<fffffe0000c01350>] init_cma_reserved_pageblock+0xe8/0x104 [<fffffe0000c24de0>] cma_init_reserved_areas+0x190/0x1e4 [<fffffe0000090418>] do_one_initcall+0xc4/0x154 [<fffffe0000bf0a50>] kernel_init_freeable+0x204/0x2a8 [<fffffe00007520a0>] kernel_init+0xc/0xd4 This happens because init_cma_reserved_pageblock() calls __free_one_page() with pageblock_order as page order but it is bigger han MAX_ORDER. This in turn causes accesses past zone->free_list[]. Fix the problem by changing init_cma_reserved_pageblock() such that it splits pageblock into individual MAX_ORDER pages if pageblock is bigger than a MAX_ORDER page. In cases where !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE, which is all architectures expect for ia64, powerpc and tile at the moment, the “pageblock_order > MAX_ORDER” condition will be optimised out since both sides of the operator are constants. In cases where pageblock size is variable, the performance degradation should not be significant anyway since init_cma_reserved_pageblock() is called only at boot time at most MAX_CMA_AREAS times which by default is eight. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.5+ Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-and-tested-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Resent with somehow bigger distribution including Andrew, Mel and linux-mm, as well as stable. diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index ee92384..fef9614 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -816,9 +816,21 @@ void __init init_cma_reserved_pageblock(struct page *page) set_page_count(p, 0); } while (++p, --i); - set_page_refcounted(page); set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_CMA); - __free_pages(page, pageblock_order); + + if (pageblock_order >= MAX_ORDER) { + i = pageblock_nr_pages; + p = page; + do { + set_page_refcounted(p); + __free_pages(p, MAX_ORDER - 1); + p += MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES; + } while (i -= MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES); + } else { + set_page_refcounted(page); + __free_pages(page, pageblock_order); + } + adjust_managed_page_count(page, pageblock_nr_pages); } #endif -- 2.0.0.526.g5318336 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>