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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] mm: fix panic in __alloc_pages
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On 11/8/21 11:03 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 09.11.21 03:08, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/8/21 12:23 PM, Alexey Makhalov wrote:
>>> There is a kernel panic caused by pcpu_alloc_pages() passing
>>> offlined and uninitialized node to alloc_pages_node() leading
>>> to panic by NULL dereferencing uninitialized NODE_DATA(nid).
>>>
>>> CPU2 has been hot-added
>>> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001608
>>> #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
>>> #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
>>> PGD 0 P4D 0
>>> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
>>> CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G E 5.15.0-rc7+ #11
>>> Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware7,1/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS VMW
>>>
>>> RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x127/0x290
>>> Code: 4c 89 f0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 44 89 e0 48 8b 55 b8 c1 e8 0c 83 e0 01 88 45 d0 4c 89 c8 48 85 d2 0f 85 1a 01 00 00 <45> 3b 41 08 0f 82 10 01 00 00 48 89 45 c0 48 8b 00 44 89 e2 81 e2
>>> RSP: 0018:ffffc900006f3bc8 EFLAGS: 00010246
>>> RAX: 0000000000001600 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
>>> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000cc2
>>> RBP: ffffc900006f3c18 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000001600
>>> R10: ffffc900006f3a40 R11: ffff88813c9fffe8 R12: 0000000000000cc2
>>> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000cc2
>>> FS: 00007f27ead70500(0000) GS:ffff88807ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
>>> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
>>> CR2: 0000000000001608 CR3: 000000000582c003 CR4: 00000000001706b0
>>> Call Trace:
>>> pcpu_alloc_pages.constprop.0+0xe4/0x1c0
>>> pcpu_populate_chunk+0x33/0xb0
>>> pcpu_alloc+0x4d3/0x6f0
>>> __alloc_percpu_gfp+0xd/0x10
>>> alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info+0x54/0xb0
>>> mem_cgroup_alloc+0xed/0x2f0
>>> mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0x33/0x2f0
>>> css_create+0x3a/0x1f0
>>> cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x12b/0x150
>>> cgroup_mkdir+0xdd/0x110
>>> kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x4f/0x80
>>> vfs_mkdir+0x178/0x230
>>> do_mkdirat+0xfd/0x120
>>> __x64_sys_mkdir+0x47/0x70
>>> ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x21/0x50
>>> do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90
>>> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
>>>
>>> Panic can be easily reproduced by disabling udev rule for
>>> automatic onlining hot added CPU followed by CPU with
>>> memoryless node (NUMA node with CPU only) hot add.
>>>
>>> Hot adding CPU and memoryless node does not bring the node
>>> to online state. Memoryless node will be onlined only during
>>> the onlining its CPU.
>>>
>>> Node can be in one of the following states:
>>> 1. not present.(nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
>>> 2. present, but offline (nid > NUMA_NO_NODE, node_online(nid) == 0,
>>> NODE_DATA(nid) == NULL)
>>> 3. present and online (nid > NUMA_NO_NODE, node_online(nid) > 0,
>>> NODE_DATA(nid) != NULL)
>>>
>>> Percpu code is doing allocations for all possible CPUs. The
>>> issue happens when it serves hot added but not yet onlined
>>> CPU when its node is in 2nd state. This node is not ready
>>> to use, fallback to numa_mem_id().
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>>> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>>> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>>> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>>> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
>>> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>>> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
>>> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
>>> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>>> ---
>>> mm/percpu-vm.c | 8 ++++++--
>>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/percpu-vm.c b/mm/percpu-vm.c
>>> index 2054c9213..f58d73c92 100644
>>> --- a/mm/percpu-vm.c
>>> +++ b/mm/percpu-vm.c
>>> @@ -84,15 +84,19 @@ static int pcpu_alloc_pages(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk,
>>> gfp_t gfp)
>>> {
>>> unsigned int cpu, tcpu;
>>> - int i;
>>> + int i, nid;
>>>
>>> gfp |= __GFP_HIGHMEM;
>>>
>>> for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
>>> + nid = cpu_to_node(cpu);
>>> + if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE || !node_online(nid))
>>> + nid = numa_mem_id();
>>
>> Maybe we should fail this fallback if (gfp & __GFP_THISNODE) ?
>
> ... and what to do then? Fail the allocation? We could do that, but ...
>
>>
>> Or maybe there is no support for this constraint in per-cpu allocator anyway.
>>
>
> ... looking at mm/percpu.c, I don't think there are any users (IOW not
> supported?).
>
>> I am a bit worried that we do not really know if pages are
>> allocated on the right node or not.
>
> Even without __GFP_THISNODE it's sub-optimal. But if there is no memory
> on that node, there is barely anything we can do than falling back.

Some users need having fine control.
They would prefer -ENOMEM instead of a fallback.

Usually, /prov/vmallocinfo tells us numbers of allocated pages per node,
but it does not work (yet) with pcpu_get_vm_areas zones.

# grep alloc_large_system_hash /proc/vmallocinfo
0x00000000fb57af48-0x0000000084e058f0 134221824 alloc_large_system_hash+0x10f/0x2a0 pages=32768 vmalloc vpages N0=16384 N1=16384

# grep pcpu_get_vm_areas /proc/vmallocinfo
0x000000009d7bd01f-0x000000002aa861cb 12582912 pcpu_get_vm_areas+0x0/0xa90 vmalloc
0x000000002aa861cb-0x0000000019fb1839 12582912 pcpu_get_vm_areas+0x0/0xa90 vmalloc
0x0000000019fb1839-0x00000000ba64fb09 12582912 pcpu_get_vm_areas+0x0/0xa90 vmalloc
0x00000000ba64fb09-0x00000000d688f04b 12582912 pcpu_get_vm_areas+0x0/0xa90 vmalloc
0x00000000d688f04b-0x0000000074e3854e 12582912 pcpu_get_vm_areas+0x0/0xa90 vmalloc

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