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SubjectRe: [External] Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: fix uninitialized subpool pointer
On Wed 24-02-21 19:10:42, Muchun Song wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 5:43 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue 23-02-21 13:55:44, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > > Gerald Schaefer reported a panic on s390 in hugepage_subpool_put_pages()
> > > with linux-next 5.12.0-20210222.
> > > Call trace:
> > > hugepage_subpool_put_pages.part.0+0x2c/0x138
> > > __free_huge_page+0xce/0x310
> > > alloc_pool_huge_page+0x102/0x120
> > > set_max_huge_pages+0x13e/0x350
> > > hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common+0xd8/0x110
> > > hugetlb_sysctl_handler+0x48/0x58
> > > proc_sys_call_handler+0x138/0x238
> > > new_sync_write+0x10e/0x198
> > > vfs_write.part.0+0x12c/0x238
> > > ksys_write+0x68/0xf8
> > > do_syscall+0x82/0xd0
> > > __do_syscall+0xb4/0xc8
> > > system_call+0x72/0x98
> > >
> > > This is a result of the change which moved the hugetlb page subpool
> > > pointer from page->private to page[1]->private. When new pages are
> > > allocated from the buddy allocator, the private field of the head
> > > page will be cleared, but the private field of subpages is not modified.
> > > Therefore, old values may remain.
> >
> > Very interesting. I have expected that the page->private would be in a
> > reasonable state when allocated. On the other hand hugetlb doesn't do
> > __GFP_COMP so tail pages are not initialized by the allocator.
>
> It seems that the buddy allocator does not initialize the private field
> of the tail page even when we specify __GFP_COMP.

Yes it doesn't. What I meant to say is that even if it did a lack of
__GFP_COMP would result in not doing so. I do not remember why hugetlb
doesn't use __GFP_COMP but I believe this was never the case.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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