netdev - Re: EBPF-triggered WARNING at mm/percpu.c:1361 in v4-14-rc2

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Date:   Thu, 28 Sep 2017 07:52:11 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller@...glegroups.com,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Subject: Re: EBPF-triggered WARNING at mm/percpu.c:1361 in v4-14-rc2

Hello,

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:27:28PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
> index 59d44d6..f731c45 100644
> --- a/mm/percpu.c
> +++ b/mm/percpu.c
> @@ -1355,8 +1355,13 @@ static void __percpu *pcpu_alloc(size_t size, size_t align, bool reserved,
>         bits = size >> PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SHIFT;
>         bit_align = align >> PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SHIFT;
>  
> -       if (unlikely(!size || size > PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE || align > PAGE_SIZE ||
> -                    !is_power_of_2(align))) {
> +       if (unlikely(size > PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE)) {
> +               pr_warn("cannot allocate pcpu chunk of size %zu (max %zu)\n",
> +                       size, PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE);

WARN_ONCE() probably is the better choice here.  We wanna know who
tries to allocate larger than the supported size and increase the size
limit if warranted.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun