linux-kernel - [PATCH v1] hugetlbfs: don't access uninitialized memmaps in pfn_range_valid

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Date:   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:07:17 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH v1] hugetlbfs: don't access uninitialized memmaps in pfn_range_valid_gigantic()

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

Let's make sure that we only consider online memory (managed by the
buddy) that has initialized memmaps. ZONE_DEVICE is not applicable.

page_zone() will call page_to_nid(), which will trigger
VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(PagePoisoned(page), page) with CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING
and CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS when called on uninitialized memmaps. This
can be the case when an offline memory block (e.g., never onlined) is
spanned by a zone.

Note: As explained by Michal in [1], alloc_contig_range() will verify
the range. So it boils down to the wrong access in this function.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180423000943.GO17484@dhcp22.suse.cz

Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Fixes: f1dd2cd13c4b ("mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online") # visible after d0dc12e86b319
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # v4.13+
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index ef37c85423a5..b45a95363a84 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1084,11 +1084,10 @@ static bool pfn_range_valid_gigantic(struct zone *z,
 	struct page *page;

 	for (i = start_pfn; i < end_pfn; i++) {
-		if (!pfn_valid(i))
+		page = pfn_to_online_page(i);
+		if (!page)
 			return false;

-		page = pfn_to_page(i);
-
 		if (page_zone(page) != z)
 			return false;

-- 
2.21.0