linux-kernel - [PATCH v1] drivers/base/memory.c: Don't access uninitialized memmaps in soft_offline_page

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Date:   Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:12:00 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH v1] drivers/base/memory.c: Don't access uninitialized memmaps in soft_offline_page_store()

Uninitialized memmaps contain garbage and in the worst case trigger kernel
BUGs, especially with CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING. They should not get
touched.

Right now, when trying to soft-offline a PFN that resides on a memory
block that was never onlined, one gets a misleading error with
CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING:
  :/# echo 5637144576 > /sys/devices/system/memory/soft_offline_page
  [   23.097167] soft offline: 0x150000 page already poisoned

But the actual result depends on the garbage in the memmap.

soft_offline_page() can only work with online pages, it returns -EIO in
case of ZONE_DEVICE. Make sure to only forward pages that are online
(iow, managed by the buddy) and, therefore, have an initialized memmap.

Add a check against pfn_to_online_page() and similarly return -EIO.

Fixes: f1dd2cd13c4b ("mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online") # visible after d0dc12e86b319
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/base/memory.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
index 6bea4f3f8040..55907c27075b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
@@ -540,6 +540,9 @@ static ssize_t soft_offline_page_store(struct device *dev,
 	pfn >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
 	if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
 		return -ENXIO;
+	/* Only online pages can be soft-offlined (esp., not ZONE_DEVICE). */
+	if (!pfn_to_online_page(pfn))
+		return -EIO;
 	ret = soft_offline_page(pfn_to_page(pfn), 0);
 	return ret == 0 ? count : ret;
 }
-- 
2.21.0