[PATCH 5.4 135/156] Revert "mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late()."

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From: Aaron Thompson <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 647037adcad00f2bab8828d3d41cd0553d41f3bd upstream.

This reverts commit 115d9d77bb0f9152c60b6e8646369fa7f6167593.

The pages being freed by memblock_free_late() have already been
initialized, but if they are in the deferred init range,
__free_one_page() might access nearby uninitialized pages when trying to
coalesce buddies. This can, for example, trigger this BUG:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe964c02580c8
  RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x3f/0x70
   <TASK>
   __free_one_page+0x139/0x410
   __free_pages_ok+0x21d/0x450
   memblock_free_late+0x8c/0xb9
   efi_free_boot_services+0x16b/0x25c
   efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x403/0x446
   start_kernel+0x678/0x714
   secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xd2/0xdb
   </TASK>

A proper fix will be more involved so revert this change for the time
being.

Fixes: 115d9d77bb0f ("mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late().")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Thompson <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230207082151.1303-1-dev@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/memblock.c |    8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -1546,13 +1546,7 @@ void __init __memblock_free_late(phys_ad
 	end = PFN_DOWN(base + size);
 
 	for (; cursor < end; cursor++) {
-		/*
-		 * Reserved pages are always initialized by the end of
-		 * memblock_free_all() (by memmap_init() and, if deferred
-		 * initialization is enabled, memmap_init_reserved_pages()), so
-		 * these pages can be released directly to the buddy allocator.
-		 */
-		__free_pages_core(pfn_to_page(cursor), 0);
+		memblock_free_pages(pfn_to_page(cursor), cursor, 0);
 		totalram_pages_inc();
 	}
 }





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