From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> While playing with gigantic hugepages and memory_hotplug, I triggered the following #PF when "cat memoryX/removable": BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 #PF error: [normal kernel read fault] PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 1 PID: 1481 Comm: cat Tainted: G E 4.20.0-rc6-mm1-1-default+ #18 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:has_unmovable_pages+0x154/0x210 Call Trace: is_mem_section_removable+0x7d/0x100 removable_show+0x90/0xb0 dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x50 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xca/0x1b0 seq_read+0x133/0x380 __vfs_read+0x26/0x180 vfs_read+0x89/0x140 ksys_read+0x42/0x90 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x180 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 The reason is we do not pass the Head to page_hstate(), and so, the call to compound_order() in page_hstate() returns 0, so we end up checking all hstates's size to match PAGE_SIZE. Obviously, we do not find any hstate matching that size, and we return NULL. Then, we dereference that NULL pointer in hugepage_migration_supported() and we got the #PF from above. Fix that by getting the head page before calling page_hstate(). Also, since gigantic pages span several pageblocks, re-adjust the logic for skipping pages. While are it, we can also get rid of the round_up(). [osalvador@xxxxxxx: remove round_up(), adjust skip pages logic per Michal] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181221062809.31771-1-osalvador@xxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181217225113.17864-1-osalvador@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pavel.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index e2afdb2dc2c5..e95b5b7c9c3d 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -7814,11 +7814,14 @@ bool has_unmovable_pages(struct zone *zone, struct page *page, int count, * handle each tail page individually in migration. */ if (PageHuge(page)) { + struct page *head = compound_head(page); + unsigned int skip_pages; - if (!hugepage_migration_supported(page_hstate(page))) + if (!hugepage_migration_supported(page_hstate(head))) goto unmovable; - iter = round_up(iter + 1, 1<<compound_order(page)) - 1; + skip_pages = (1 << compound_order(head)) - (page - head); + iter += skip_pages - 1; continue; } -- 2.17.1