linux-kernel - [PATCH] hv_balloon: avoid touching uninitialized struct page during tail onlining

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Message-Id: <20190104141942.19126-1-vkuznets@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri,  4 Jan 2019 15:19:42 +0100
From:   Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
To:     devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH] hv_balloon: avoid touching uninitialized struct page during tail onlining

Hyper-V memory hotplug protocol has 2M granularity and in Linux x86 we use
128M. To deal with it we implement partial section onlining by registering
custom page onlining callback (hv_online_page()). Later, when more memory
arrives we try to online the 'tail' (see hv_bring_pgs_online()).

It was found that in some cases this 'tail' onlining causes issues:

 BUG: Bad page state in process kworker/0:2  pfn:109e3a
 page:ffffe08344278e80 count:0 mapcount:1 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0
 flags: 0xfffff80000000()
 raw: 000fffff80000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000200 0000000000000000
 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
 ...
 Workqueue: events hot_add_req [hv_balloon]
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x5c/0x80
  bad_page.cold.112+0x7f/0xb2
  free_pcppages_bulk+0x4b8/0x690
  free_unref_page+0x54/0x70
  hv_page_online_one+0x5c/0x80 [hv_balloon]
  hot_add_req.cold.24+0x182/0x835 [hv_balloon]
  ...

Turns out that we now have deferred struct page initialization for memory
hotplug so e.g. memory_block_action() in drivers/base/memory.c does
pages_correctly_probed() check and in that check it avoids inspecting
struct pages and checks sections instead. But in Hyper-V balloon driver we
do PageReserved(pfn_to_page()) check and this is now wrong.

Switch to checking online_section_nr() instead.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
index 5301fef16c31..7c6349a50ef1 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c
@@ -888,12 +888,14 @@ static unsigned long handle_pg_range(unsigned long pg_start,
 			pfn_cnt -= pgs_ol;
 			/*
 			 * Check if the corresponding memory block is already
-			 * online by checking its last previously backed page.
-			 * In case it is we need to bring rest (which was not
-			 * backed previously) online too.
+			 * online. It is possible to observe struct pages still
+			 * being uninitialized here so check section instead.
+			 * In case the section is online we need to bring the
+			 * rest of pfns (which were not backed previously)
+			 * online too.
 			 */
 			if (start_pfn > has->start_pfn &&
-			    !PageReserved(pfn_to_page(start_pfn - 1)))
+			    online_section_nr(pfn_to_section_nr(start_pfn)))
 				hv_bring_pgs_online(has, start_pfn, pgs_ol);
 
 		}
-- 
2.20.1