linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] numa, mem-hotplug: Fix stack overflow in numa when seting kernel nodes to unhotpluggable.

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:06:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
cc:	davej@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	zhangyanfei@...fujitsu.com, guz.fnst@...fujitsu.com,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] numa, mem-hotplug: Fix stack overflow in numa when seting
 kernel nodes to unhotpluggable.

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Tang Chen wrote:

> Dave found that the kernel will hang during boot. This is because
> the nodemask_t type stack variable numa_kernel_nodes is large enough
> to overflow the stack.
> 
> This doesn't always happen. According to Dave, this happened once
> in about five boots. The backtrace is like the following:
> 
> dump_stack
> panic
> ? numa_clear_kernel_node_hotplug
> __stack_chk_fail
> numa_clear_kernel_node_hotplug
> ? memblock_search_pfn_nid
> ? __early_pfn_to_nid
> numa_init
> x86_numa_init
> initmem_init
> setup_arch
> start_kernel
> 
> This patch fix this problem by defining numa_kernel_nodes as a
> static global variable in __initdata area.
> 
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
> Tested-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@...fujitsu.com>

I guess it depends on what Dave's CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT is?

> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/numa.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> index 81b2750..ebefeb7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> @@ -562,10 +562,10 @@ static void __init numa_init_array(void)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static nodemask_t numa_kernel_nodes __initdata;
>  static void __init numa_clear_kernel_node_hotplug(void)
>  {
>  	int i, nid;
> -	nodemask_t numa_kernel_nodes;
>  	unsigned long start, end;
>  	struct memblock_type *type = &memblock.reserved;
>  

Isn't this also a bugfix since you never initialize numa_kernel_nodes when 
it's allocated on the stack with NODE_MASK_NONE?
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