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Message-Id: <2a30945e9615b424cf32d8182df12f3ee12ea27a.1488791430.git.jslaby@suse.cz>
Date:   Mon,  6 Mar 2017 10:10:55 +0100
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>,
        Andrew Banman <abanman@....com>,
        Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 031/113] mm/memory_hotplug.c: check start_pfn in test_pages_in_a_zone()

From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

===============

commit deb88a2a19e85842d79ba96b05031739ec327ff4 upstream.

Patch series "fix a kernel oops when reading sysfs valid_zones", v2.

A sysfs memory file is created for each 2GiB memory block on x86-64 when
the system has 64GiB or more memory.  [1] When the start address of a
memory block is not backed by struct page, i.e.  a memory range is not
aligned by 2GiB, reading its 'valid_zones' attribute file leads to a
kernel oops.  This issue was observed on multiple x86-64 systems with
more than 64GiB of memory.  This patch-set fixes this issue.

Patch 1 first fixes an issue in test_pages_in_a_zone(), which does not
test the start section.

Patch 2 then fixes the kernel oops by extending test_pages_in_a_zone()
to return valid [start, end).

Note for stable kernels: The memory block size change was made by commit
bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on large-memory x86-64
systems"), which was accepted to 3.9.  However, this patch-set depends
on (and fixes) the change to test_pages_in_a_zone() made by commit
5f0f2887f4de ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: check for missing sections in
test_pages_in_a_zone()"), which was accepted to 4.4.

So, I recommend that we backport it up to 4.4.

[1] 'Commit bdee237c0343 ("x86: mm: Use 2GB memory block size on
    large-memory x86-64 systems")'

This patch (of 2):

test_pages_in_a_zone() does not check 'start_pfn' when it is aligned by
section since 'sec_end_pfn' is set equal to 'pfn'.  Since this function
is called for testing the range of a sysfs memory file, 'start_pfn' is
always aligned by section.

Fix it by properly setting 'sec_end_pfn' to the next section pfn.

Also make sure that this function returns 1 only when the range belongs
to a zone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170127222149.30893-2-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>
Cc: Andrew Banman <abanman@....com>
Cc: Reza Arbab <arbab@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 723978c6f8ab..8b2e127b6af4 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1205,7 +1205,7 @@ int is_mem_section_removable(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
 }

 /*
- * Confirm all pages in a range [start, end) is belongs to the same zone.
+ * Confirm all pages in a range [start, end) belong to the same zone.
  */
 static int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
@@ -1213,9 +1213,9 @@ static int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 	struct zone *zone = NULL;
 	struct page *page;
 	int i;
-	for (pfn = start_pfn, sec_end_pfn = SECTION_ALIGN_UP(start_pfn);
+	for (pfn = start_pfn, sec_end_pfn = SECTION_ALIGN_UP(start_pfn + 1);
 	     pfn < end_pfn;
-	     pfn = sec_end_pfn + 1, sec_end_pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
+	     pfn = sec_end_pfn, sec_end_pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
 		/* Make sure the memory section is present first */
 		if (!present_section_nr(pfn_to_section_nr(pfn)))
 			continue;
@@ -1234,7 +1234,11 @@ static int test_pages_in_a_zone(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
 			zone = page_zone(page);
 		}
 	}
-	return 1;
+
+	if (zone)
+		return 1;
+	else
+		return 0;
 }

 /*
-- 
2.12.0