On 11.10.19 08:13, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 04:12:00PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
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 <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <raf...@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <da...@redhat.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;

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horigu...@ah.jp.nec.com>

I think this check could be placed in soft_offline_page(), but that requires
a few more unrelated lines of changes due to the mismatch on type of parameter
between memory_failure() and soft_offline_page(),  This is not your problem,
and I plan to do some cleanup on related interfaces, so this patch is fine.


Thanks,

well I think when you come via madvise(), you are always guaranteed to hold a reasonable page in your hands. Only when converting from arbitrary pfns, we have to watch out. But yeah, feel free to cc me on cleanups :)

- Naoya Horiguchi



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Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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