linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: uninitialized struct page poisoning sanity checking

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Date:   Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:02:53 -0400
From:   Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...cle.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "steven.sistare@...cle.com" <steven.sistare@...cle.com>,
        "daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com" <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm: uninitialized struct page poisoning sanity checking

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:53 PM, Sasha Levin
<Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 08:38:57PM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
>>Hi Sasha,
>>
>>It seems the patch is doing the right thing, and it catches bugs. Here
>>we access uninitialized struct page. The question is why this happens?
>
> Not completely; note that we die on an invalid reference rather than
> assertion failure.

I think that invalid reference happens within assertion failure, as
far as I can tell, it is dump_page() where we get the invalid
reference, but to get to dump_page() from get_nid_for_pfn() we must
have triggered the assertion.

>
>>register_mem_sect_under_node(struct memory_block *mem_blk, int nid)
>>   page_nid = get_nid_for_pfn(pfn);
>>
>>node id is stored in page flags, and since struct page is poisoned,
>>and the pattern is recognized, the panic is triggered.
>>
>>Do you have config file? Also, instructions how to reproduce it?
>
> Attached the config. It just happens on boot.

Thanks, I will try in qemu.

Pasha