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Message-ID: <48652B6A.7060007@sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:03:22 -0700
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Add check for node passed to node_to_cpumask
 V3

Vegard Nossum wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Mike Travis <travis@....com> wrote:
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Add check for node passed to node_to_cpumask V3
>>
>>  * When CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS is set, the node passed to
>>    node_to_cpumask and node_to_cpumask_ptr should be validated.
>>    If invalid, then a dump_stack is performed and a zero cpumask
>>    is returned.
>>
>> Based on "Fri Jun 27 10:06:06 PDT 2008" tip/master...  ;-)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
>> ---
>> V2: Slightly different version to remove a compiler warning.
>> V3: Redone to reflect moving setup.c -> setup_percpu.c
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c |   26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
>>  include/asm-x86/topology.h     |    7 ++++++-
>>  2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- linux-2.6.tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
>> +++ linux-2.6.tip/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
>> @@ -346,6 +346,10 @@ int early_cpu_to_node(int cpu)
>>        return per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_node_map, cpu);
>>  }
>>
>> +
>> +/* empty cpumask */
>> +static const cpumask_t cpu_mask_none;
>> +
>>  /*
>>  * Returns a pointer to the bitmask of CPUs on Node 'node'.
>>  */
>> @@ -358,13 +362,23 @@ cpumask_t *_node_to_cpumask_ptr(int node
>>                dump_stack();
>>                return &cpu_online_map;
>>        }
>> -       BUG_ON(node >= nr_node_ids);
>> -       return &node_to_cpumask_map[node];
>> +       if (node >= nr_node_ids) {
>> +               printk(KERN_WARNING
>> +                       "_node_to_cpumask_ptr(%d): node > nr_node_ids(%d)\n",
>> +                       node, nr_node_ids);
>> +               dump_stack();
>> +               return (cpumask_t *)&cpu_mask_none;
> 
> Hm, I am wondering about this.
> 
> There exists an option DEBUG_RODATA ("Write protect kernel read-only
> data structures"). I'm guessing this RO protections means that we'll
> get page faults (and thus BUG/panic) if this "none" mask is ever
> attempted to be changed.
> 
> So if CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA=y, I believe we'll see first this warning,
> then a panic (after all). Would it be better to make cpu_mask_none
> non-const, in spirit of trying to continue as far as possible? I don't
> really know if it matters, though. It seems that fedora kernels at
> least ship with a default of DEBUG_RODATA=y.
> 
> What you could also do is to make it non-const and then zero it each
> time it is requested. Again, this is an error situation in either
> case, so maybe it's not worth fussing about.
> 
> 
> Vegard
> 

Ingo asked me to add the "const".  But it would be a mistake to use
node_to_cpumask_ptr to modify the map... numa_set/clear_node is the
proper way to modify the maps.  Hmm, maybe I should add "const" to
the real node_to_cpumask_ptr function, at least then the compiler
would help spot illegal usages.

Thanks,
Mike
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