Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm/slub: fix panic in slab_alloc_node() | From | Laurent Dufour <> | Date | Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:39:46 +0100 |
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Le 27/10/2020 à 15:24, Michal Hocko a écrit : > [Cc Vlastimil] > > On Tue 27-10-20 15:09:26, Laurent Dufour wrote: >> While doing memory hot-unplug operation on a PowerPC VM running 1024 CPUs >> with 11TB of ram, I hit the following panic: >> >> BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000007 >> Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000456048 >> Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#2] >> LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries >> Modules linked in: rpadlpar_io rpaphp >> CPU: 160 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G D 5.9.0 #1 >> NIP: c000000000456048 LR: c000000000455fd4 CTR: c00000000047b350 >> REGS: c00006028d1b77a0 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G D (5.9.0) >> MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24004228 XER: 00000000 >> CFAR: c00000000000f1b0 DAR: 0000000000000007 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 >> GPR00: c000000000455fd4 c00006028d1b7a30 c000000001bec800 0000000000000000 >> GPR04: 0000000000000dc0 0000000000000000 00000000000374ef c00007c53df99320 >> GPR08: 000007c53c980000 0000000000000000 000007c53c980000 0000000000000000 >> GPR12: 0000000000004400 c00000001e8e4400 0000000000000000 0000000000000f6a >> GPR16: 0000000000000000 c000000001c25930 c000000001d62528 00000000000000c1 >> GPR20: c000000001d62538 c00006be469e9000 0000000fffffffe0 c0000000003c0ff8 >> GPR24: 0000000000000018 0000000000000000 0000000000000dc0 0000000000000000 >> GPR28: c00007c513755700 c000000001c236a4 c00007bc4001f800 0000000000000001 >> NIP [c000000000456048] __kmalloc_node+0x108/0x790 >> LR [c000000000455fd4] __kmalloc_node+0x94/0x790 >> Call Trace: >> [c00006028d1b7a30] [c00007c51af92000] 0xc00007c51af92000 (unreliable) >> [c00006028d1b7aa0] [c0000000003c0ff8] kvmalloc_node+0x58/0x110 >> [c00006028d1b7ae0] [c00000000047b45c] mem_cgroup_css_online+0x10c/0x270 >> [c00006028d1b7b30] [c000000000241fd8] online_css+0x48/0xd0 >> [c00006028d1b7b60] [c00000000024af14] cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x2c4/0x470 >> [c00006028d1b7c40] [c00000000024e838] cgroup_mkdir+0x408/0x5f0 >> [c00006028d1b7cb0] [c0000000005a4ef0] kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x90/0x100 >> [c00006028d1b7cf0] [c0000000004b8168] vfs_mkdir+0x138/0x250 >> [c00006028d1b7d40] [c0000000004baf04] do_mkdirat+0x154/0x1c0 >> [c00006028d1b7dc0] [c000000000032b38] system_call_exception+0xf8/0x200 >> [c00006028d1b7e20] [c00000000000c740] system_call_common+0xf0/0x27c >> Instruction dump: >> e93e0000 e90d0030 39290008 7cc9402a e94d0030 e93e0000 7ce95214 7f89502a >> 2fbc0000 419e0018 41920230 e9270010 <89290007> 7f994800 419e0220 7ee6bb78 >> >> This pointing to the following code: >> >> mm/slub.c:2851 >> if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node))) { >> c000000000456038: 00 00 bc 2f cmpdi cr7,r28,0 >> c00000000045603c: 18 00 9e 41 beq cr7,c000000000456054 <__kmalloc_node+0x114> >> node_match(): >> mm/slub.c:2491 >> if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE && page_to_nid(page) != node) >> c000000000456040: 30 02 92 41 beq cr4,c000000000456270 <__kmalloc_node+0x330> >> page_to_nid(): >> include/linux/mm.h:1294 >> c000000000456044: 10 00 27 e9 ld r9,16(r7) >> c000000000456048: 07 00 29 89 lbz r9,7(r9) <<<< r9 = NULL >> node_match(): >> mm/slub.c:2491 >> c00000000045604c: 00 48 99 7f cmpw cr7,r25,r9 >> c000000000456050: 20 02 9e 41 beq cr7,c000000000456270 <__kmalloc_node+0x330> >> >> The panic occurred in slab_alloc_node() when checking for the page's node: >> object = c->freelist; >> page = c->page; >> if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node))) { >> object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c); >> stat(s, ALLOC_SLOWPATH); >> >> The issue is that object is not NULL while page is NULL which is odd but >> may happen if the cache flush happened after loading object but before >> loading page. Thus checking for the page pointer is required too. > > Could you be more specific? I am especially confused how the memory > hotplug is involved here. What kind of flush are we talking about?
This happens when flush_cpu_slab() is called when a memory block is about to be offlined, see slab_mem_going_offline_callback() called by the MEM_GOING_OFFLINE's callback triggered by offline_pages().
> >> In commit 6159d0f5c03e ("mm/slub.c: page is always non-NULL in >> node_match()") check on the page pointer has been removed assuming that >> page is always valid when it is called. It happens that this is not true in >> that particular case, so check for page before calling node_match() here. >> >> Fixes: 6159d0f5c03e ("mm/slub.c: page is always non-NULL in node_match()") >> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> >> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> >> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> >> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> >> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> >> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> >> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org >> --- >> mm/slub.c | 2 +- >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c >> index 8f66de8a5ab3..7dc5c6aaf4b7 100644 >> --- a/mm/slub.c >> +++ b/mm/slub.c >> @@ -2852,7 +2852,7 @@ static __always_inline void *slab_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *s, >> >> object = c->freelist; >> page = c->page; >> - if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node))) { >> + if (unlikely(!object || !page || !node_match(page, node))) { >> object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c); >> } else { >> void *next_object = get_freepointer_safe(s, object); >> -- >> 2.29.1 >> >
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