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Date:   Wed, 19 Dec 2018 07:46:49 -0500
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, tglx@...utronix.de,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: skip checking poison pattern for page_to_nid()

On 12/19/18 5:20 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 18-12-18 20:57:32, Qian Cai wrote:
> [...]
>> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
>> index 5411de93a363..f083f366ea90 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
>> @@ -985,9 +985,7 @@ extern int page_to_nid(const struct page *page);
>>  #else
>>  static inline int page_to_nid(const struct page *page)
>>  {
>> -	struct page *p = (struct page *)page;
>> -
>> -	return (PF_POISONED_CHECK(p)->flags >> NODES_PGSHIFT) & NODES_MASK;
>> +	return (page->flags >> NODES_PGSHIFT) & NODES_MASK;
>>  }
>>  #endif
> 
> I didn't get to think about a proper fix but this is clearly worng. If
> the page is still poisoned then flags are clearly bogus and the node you
> get is a garbage as well. Have you actually tested this patch?
> 

Yes, I did notice that after running for a while triggering some UBSAN
out-of-bounds access warnings. I am still trying to figure out how those
uninitialized page flags survived though after

mm_init
  mem_init
    memblock_free_all
      init_single_page()