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SubjectRe: [PATCH -next] mm/hotplug: skip bad PFNs from pfn_to_online_page()
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 2:52 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 2:47 PM Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2019-06-12 at 12:38 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:37 PM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:16 PM Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > The linux-next commit "mm/sparsemem: Add helpers track active portions
> > > > > of a section at boot" [1] causes a crash below when the first kmemleak
> > > > > scan kthread kicks in. This is because kmemleak_scan() calls
> > > > > pfn_to_online_page(() which calls pfn_valid_within() instead of
> > > > > pfn_valid() on x86 due to CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE=n.
> > > > >
> > > > > The commit [1] did add an additional check of pfn_section_valid() in
> > > > > pfn_valid(), but forgot to add it in the above code path.
> > > > >
> > > > > page:ffffea0002748000 is uninitialized and poisoned
> > > > > raw: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
> > > > > raw: ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
> > > > > page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
> > > > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > > > kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1084!
> > > > > invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN PTI
> > > > > CPU: 5 PID: 332 Comm: kmemleak Not tainted 5.2.0-rc4-next-20190612+ #6
> > > > > Hardware name: Lenovo ThinkSystem SR530 -[7X07RCZ000]-/-[7X07RCZ000]-,
> > > > > BIOS -[TEE113T-1.00]- 07/07/2017
> > > > > RIP: 0010:kmemleak_scan+0x6df/0xad0
> > > > > Call Trace:
> > > > > kmemleak_scan_thread+0x9f/0xc7
> > > > > kthread+0x1d2/0x1f0
> > > > > ret_from_fork+0x35/0x4
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10977957/
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > include/linux/memory_hotplug.h | 1 +
> > > > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> > > > > b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> > > > > index 0b8a5e5ef2da..f02be86077e3 100644
> > > > > --- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> > > > > +++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
> > > > > @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> > > > > unsigned long ___nr = pfn_to_section_nr(___pfn); \
> > > > > \
> > > > > if (___nr < NR_MEM_SECTIONS && online_section_nr(___nr) && \
> > > > > + pfn_section_valid(__nr_to_section(___nr), pfn) && \
> > > > > pfn_valid_within(___pfn)) \
> > > > > ___page = pfn_to_page(___pfn); \
> > > > > ___page; \
> > > >
> > > > Looks ok to me:
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> > > >
> > > > ...but why is pfn_to_online_page() a multi-line macro instead of a
> > > > static inline like all the helper routines it invokes?
> > >
> > > I do need to send out a refreshed version of the sub-section patchset,
> > > so I'll fold this in and give you a Reported-by credit.
> >
> > BTW, not sure if your new version will fix those two problem below due to the
> > same commit.
> >
> > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10977957/
> >
> > 1) offline is busted [1]. It looks like test_pages_in_a_zone() missed the same
> > pfn_section_valid() check.
> >
> > 2) powerpc booting is generating endless warnings [2]. In vmemmap_populated() at
> > arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c, I tried to change PAGES_PER_SECTION to
> > PAGES_PER_SUBSECTION, but it alone seems not enough.
>
> Yes, I was just sending you another note about this. I don't think
> your proposed fix is sufficient. The original intent of
> pfn_valid_within() was to use it as a cheaper lookup after already
> validating that the first page in a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES range satisfied
> pfn_valid(). Quoting commit 14e072984179 "add pfn_valid_within helper
> for sub-MAX_ORDER hole detection":
>
> Add a pfn_valid_within() helper which should be used when scanning pages
> within a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block when we have already checked the
> validility
> of the block normally with pfn_valid(). This can then be
> optimised away when
> we do not have holes within a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block of pages.
>
> So, with that insight I think the complete fix is this:
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index 6dd52d544857..9d15ec793330 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -1428,7 +1428,7 @@ void memory_present(int nid, unsigned long
> start, unsigned long end);
> #ifdef CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE
> #define pfn_valid_within(pfn) pfn_valid(pfn)
> #else
> -#define pfn_valid_within(pfn) (1)
> +#define pfn_valid_within(pfn) pfn_section_valid(pfn)

Well, obviously that won't work because pfn_section_valid needs a
'struct mem_section *' arg, but this does serve as a good check of
whether call sites were properly using pfn_valid_within() to constrain
the validity after an existing pfn_valid() check within the same
MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES span.

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