[RFC PATCH] mm/nvdimm: Fix kernel crash on devm_mremap_pages_release

Dan Williams dan.j.williams at intel.com
Tue May 14 14:15:15 AEST 2019


[ add Keith who was looking at something similar ]

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 7:54 PM Aneesh Kumar K.V
<aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> When we initialize the namespace, if we support altmap, we don't initialize all the
> backing struct page where as while releasing the namespace we look at some of
> these uninitilized struct page. This results in a kernel crash as below.
>
> kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1034!
> cpu 0x2: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c00000024146b870]
>     pc: c0000000003788f8: devm_memremap_pages_release+0x258/0x3a0
>     lr: c0000000003788f4: devm_memremap_pages_release+0x254/0x3a0
>     sp: c00000024146bb00
>    msr: 800000000282b033
>   current = 0xc000000241382f00
>   paca    = 0xc00000003fffd680   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x01
>     pid   = 4114, comm = ndctl
>  c0000000009bf8c0 devm_action_release+0x30/0x50
>  c0000000009c0938 release_nodes+0x268/0x2d0
>  c0000000009b95b4 device_release_driver_internal+0x164/0x230
>  c0000000009b638c unbind_store+0x13c/0x190
>  c0000000009b4f44 drv_attr_store+0x44/0x60
>  c00000000058ccc0 sysfs_kf_write+0x70/0xa0
>  c00000000058b52c kernfs_fop_write+0x1ac/0x290
>  c0000000004a415c __vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
>  c0000000004a85ac vfs_write+0xec/0x200
>  c0000000004a8920 ksys_write+0x80/0x130
>  c00000000000bee4 system_call+0x5c/0x70
>
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  mm/page_alloc.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index 59661106da16..892eabe1ec13 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -5740,8 +5740,7 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE
>         /*
> -        * Honor reservation requested by the driver for this ZONE_DEVICE
> -        * memory. We limit the total number of pages to initialize to just
> +        * We limit the total number of pages to initialize to just
>          * those that might contain the memory mapping. We will defer the
>          * ZONE_DEVICE page initialization until after we have released
>          * the hotplug lock.
> @@ -5750,8 +5749,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_zone(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
>                 if (!altmap)
>                         return;
>
> -               if (start_pfn == altmap->base_pfn)
> -                       start_pfn += altmap->reserve;

If it's reserved then we should not be accessing, even if the above
works in practice. Isn't the fix something more like this to fix up
the assumptions at release time?

diff --git a/kernel/memremap.c b/kernel/memremap.c
index a856cb5ff192..9074ba14572c 100644
--- a/kernel/memremap.c
+++ b/kernel/memremap.c
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ static void devm_memremap_pages_release(void *data)
  struct device *dev = pgmap->dev;
  struct resource *res = &pgmap->res;
  resource_size_t align_start, align_size;
+ struct vmem_altmap *altmap = pgmap->altmap_valid ? &pgmap->altmap : NULL;
  unsigned long pfn;
  int nid;

@@ -102,7 +103,10 @@ static void devm_memremap_pages_release(void *data)
  align_size = ALIGN(res->start + resource_size(res), SECTION_SIZE)
  - align_start;

- nid = page_to_nid(pfn_to_page(align_start >> PAGE_SHIFT));
+ pfn = align_start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ if (altmap)
+ pfn += vmem_altmap_offset(altmap);
+ nid = page_to_nid(pfn_to_page(pfn));

  mem_hotplug_begin();
  if (pgmap->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE) {
@@ -110,8 +114,7 @@ static void devm_memremap_pages_release(void *data)
  __remove_pages(page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn)), pfn,
  align_size >> PAGE_SHIFT, NULL);
  } else {
- arch_remove_memory(nid, align_start, align_size,
- pgmap->altmap_valid ? &pgmap->altmap : NULL);
+ arch_remove_memory(nid, align_start, align_size, altmap);
  kasan_remove_zero_shadow(__va(align_start), align_size);
  }
  mem_hotplug_done();


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