3.13.11.6 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx> commit dc78327c0ea7da5186d8cbc1647bd6088c5c9fa5 upstream. 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: __list_add+0x10/0xd4 free_one_page+0x26c/0x638 __free_pages_ok.part.52+0x84/0xbc __free_pages+0x74/0xbc init_cma_reserved_pageblock+0xe8/0x104 cma_init_reserved_areas+0x190/0x1e4 do_one_initcall+0xc4/0x154 kernel_init_freeable+0x204/0x2a8 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 than 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 âpageblock_order > MAX_ORDERâ 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. Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 856d95c..c4133b4 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -785,9 +785,21 @@ 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 -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html