From 23feab188cb8c1abbd98d18f181287d899d82b22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oscar Salvador Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:00:46 +0200 Subject: mm: Avoid calling build_all_zonelists_init under hotplug context Recently a customer of ours experienced a crash when booting the system while enabling memory-hotplug. The problem is that Normal zones on different nodes don't get their private zone->pageset allocated, and keep sharing the initial boot_pageset. The sharing between zones is normally safe as explained by the comment for boot_pageset - it's a percpu structure, and manipulations are done with disabled interrupts, and boot_pageset is set up in a way that any page placed on its pcplist is immediately flushed to shared zone's freelist, because pcp->high == 1. However, the hotplug operation updates pcp->high to a higher value as it expects to be operating on a private pageset. The problem is in build_all_zonelists(), which is called when the first range of pages is onlined for the Normal zone of node X or Y: if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING) { build_all_zonelists_init(); } else { #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG if (zone) setup_zone_pageset(zone); #endif /* we have to stop all cpus to guarantee there is no user of zonelist */ stop_machine(__build_all_zonelists, pgdat, NULL); /* cpuset refresh routine should be here */ } When called during hotplug, it should execute the setup_zone_pageset(zone) which allocates the private pageset. However, with memhp_default_state=online, this happens early while system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING is still true, hence this step is skipped. (and build_all_zonelists_init() is probably unsafe anyway at this point). Another hotplug operation on the same zone then leads to zone_pcp_update(zone) called from online_pages(), which updates the pcp->high for the shared boot_pageset to a value higher than 1. At that point, pages freed from Node X and Y Normal zones can end up on the same pcplist and from there they can be freed to the wrong zone's freelist, leading to the corruption and crashes. Please, note that upstream has fixed that differently (and unintentionally) by adding another boot state (SYSTEM_SCHEDULING), which is set before smp_init(). That should happen before memory hotplug events even with memhp_default_state=online. Backporting that would be too intrusive. Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador Debugged-by: Vlastimil Babka Acked-by: Michal Hocko # for stable trees Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- init/main.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c index d47860dbe896..7ad08957dd18 100644 --- a/init/main.c +++ b/init/main.c @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void) smp_prepare_boot_cpu(); /* arch-specific boot-cpu hooks */ boot_cpu_hotplug_init(); - build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL); + build_all_zonelists(NULL, NULL, false); page_alloc_init(); pr_notice("Kernel command line: %s\n", boot_command_line); -- cgit v1.2.3