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base/memory, hotplug: fix a kernel oops in show_valid_zones()
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Reading a sysfs "memoryN/valid_zones" file leads to the following oops
when the first page of a range is not backed by struct page.
show_valid_zones() assumes that 'start_pfn' is always valid for
page_zone().

 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffea017a000000
 IP: show_valid_zones+0x6f/0x160

This issue may happen on x86-64 systems with 64GiB or more memory since
their memory block size is bumped up to 2GiB.  [1] An example of such
systems is desribed below.  0x3240000000 is only aligned by 1GiB and
this memory block starts from 0x3200000000, which is not backed by
struct page.

 BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000003240000000-0x000000603fffffff] usable

Since test_pages_in_a_zone() already checks holes, fix this issue by
extending this function to return 'valid_start' and 'valid_end' for a
given range.  show_valid_zones() then proceeds with the valid range.

[1] 'Commit bdee237 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on
    large-memory x86-64 systems")'

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127222149.30893-3-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.4+]

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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toshikani authored and torvalds committed Feb 3, 2017
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12 changes: 6 additions & 6 deletions drivers/base/memory.c
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Expand Up @@ -389,33 +389,33 @@ static ssize_t show_valid_zones(struct device *dev,
{
struct memory_block *mem = to_memory_block(dev);
unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
unsigned long valid_start, valid_end, valid_pages;
unsigned long nr_pages = PAGES_PER_SECTION * sections_per_block;
struct page *first_page;
struct zone *zone;
int zone_shift = 0;

start_pfn = section_nr_to_pfn(mem->start_section_nr);
end_pfn = start_pfn + nr_pages;
first_page = pfn_to_page(start_pfn);

/* The block contains more than one zone can not be offlined. */
if (!test_pages_in_a_zone(start_pfn, end_pfn))
if (!test_pages_in_a_zone(start_pfn, end_pfn, &valid_start, &valid_end))
return sprintf(buf, "none\n");

zone = page_zone(first_page);
zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(valid_start));
valid_pages = valid_end - valid_start;

/* MMOP_ONLINE_KEEP */
sprintf(buf, "%s", zone->name);

/* MMOP_ONLINE_KERNEL */
zone_can_shift(start_pfn, nr_pages, ZONE_NORMAL, &zone_shift);
zone_can_shift(valid_start, valid_pages, ZONE_NORMAL, &zone_shift);
if (zone_shift) {
strcat(buf, " ");
strcat(buf, (zone + zone_shift)->name);
}

/* MMOP_ONLINE_MOVABLE */
zone_can_shift(start_pfn, nr_pages, ZONE_MOVABLE, &zone_shift);
zone_can_shift(valid_start, valid_pages, ZONE_MOVABLE, &zone_shift);
if (zone_shift) {
strcat(buf, " ");
strcat(buf, (zone + zone_shift)->name);
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
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Expand Up @@ -85,7 +85,8 @@ extern int zone_grow_waitqueues(struct zone *zone, unsigned long nr_pages);
extern int add_one_highpage(struct page *page, int pfn, int bad_ppro);
/* VM interface that may be used by firmware interface */
extern int online_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long, int);
extern int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long, unsigned long);
extern int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
unsigned long *valid_start, unsigned long *valid_end);
extern void __offline_isolated_pages(unsigned long, unsigned long);

typedef void (*online_page_callback_t)(struct page *page);
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20 changes: 15 additions & 5 deletions mm/memory_hotplug.c
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Expand Up @@ -1484,10 +1484,13 @@ bool is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)

/*
* Confirm all pages in a range [start, end) belong to the same zone.
* When true, return its valid [start, end).
*/
int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn,
unsigned long *valid_start, unsigned long *valid_end)
{
unsigned long pfn, sec_end_pfn;
unsigned long start, end;
struct zone *zone = NULL;
struct page *page;
int i;
Expand All @@ -1509,14 +1512,20 @@ int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
page = pfn_to_page(pfn + i);
if (zone && page_zone(page) != zone)
return 0;
if (!zone)
start = pfn + i;
zone = page_zone(page);
end = pfn + MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES;
}
}

if (zone)
if (zone) {
*valid_start = start;
*valid_end = end;
return 1;
else
} else {
return 0;
}
}

/*
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1843,6 +1852,7 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
long offlined_pages;
int ret, drain, retry_max, node;
unsigned long flags;
unsigned long valid_start, valid_end;
struct zone *zone;
struct memory_notify arg;

Expand All @@ -1853,10 +1863,10 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
return -EINVAL;
/* This makes hotplug much easier...and readable.
we assume this for now. .*/
if (!test_pages_in_a_zone(start_pfn, end_pfn))
if (!test_pages_in_a_zone(start_pfn, end_pfn, &valid_start, &valid_end))
return -EINVAL;

zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(start_pfn));
zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(valid_start));
node = zone_to_nid(zone);
nr_pages = end_pfn - start_pfn;

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