FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/memory_hotplug: don't access uninitialized memmaps in" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 7ce700bf11b5e2cb84e4352bbdf2123a7a239c84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:53:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm/memory_hotplug: don't access uninitialized memmaps in
shrink_zone_span()

Let's limit shrinking to !ZONE_DEVICE so we can fix the current code. We should never try to touch the memmap of offline sections where we could have uninitialized memmaps and could trigger BUGs when calling page_to_nid() on poisoned pages.

There is no reliable way to distinguish an uninitialized memmap from an initialized memmap that belongs to ZONE_DEVICE, as we don't have anything like SECTION_IS_ONLINE we can use similar to pfn_to_online_section() for !ZONE_DEVICE memory.

E.g., set_zone_contiguous() similarly relies on pfn_to_online_section() and will therefore never set a ZONE_DEVICE zone consecutive. Stopping to shrink the ZONE_DEVICE therefore results in no observable changes, besides /proc/zoneinfo indicating different boundaries - something we can totally live with.

Before commit d0dc12e86b31 ("mm/memory_hotplug: optimize memory hotplug"), the memmap was initialized with 0 and the node with the right value. So the zone might be wrong but not garbage. After that commit, both the zone and the node will be garbage when touching uninitialized memmaps.

Toshiki reported a BUG (race between delayed initialization of ZONE_DEVICE memmaps without holding the memory hotplug lock and concurrent zone shrinking).

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/11/14/1040

"Iteration of create and destroy namespace causes the panic as below:

      kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:535!
      CPU: 7 PID: 2766 Comm: ndctl Not tainted 5.4.0-rc4 #6
      Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.11.0-0-g63451fca13-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
      RIP: 0010:set_pfnblock_flags_mask+0x95/0xf0
      Call Trace:
       memmap_init_zone_device+0x165/0x17c
       memremap_pages+0x4c1/0x540
       devm_memremap_pages+0x1d/0x60
       pmem_attach_disk+0x16b/0x600 [nd_pmem]
       nvdimm_bus_probe+0x69/0x1c0
       really_probe+0x1c2/0x3e0
       driver_probe_device+0xb4/0x100
       device_driver_attach+0x4f/0x60
       bind_store+0xc9/0x110
       kernfs_fop_write+0x116/0x190
       vfs_write+0xa5/0x1a0
       ksys_write+0x59/0xd0
       do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x180
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

While creating a namespace and initializing memmap, if you destroy the namespace and shrink the zone, it will initialize the memmap outside the zone and trigger VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!zone_spans_pfn(page_zone(page), pfn), page) in set_pfnblock_flags_mask()."

This BUG is also mitigated by this commit, where we for now stop to shrink the ZONE_DEVICE zone until we can do it in a safe and clean way.

index 3b62a9ff8ea0..f307bd82d750 100644
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static unsigned long find_smallest_section_pfn(int nid, struct zone *zone,
 				     unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
 	for (; start_pfn < end_pfn; start_pfn += PAGES_PER_SUBSECTION) {
-		if (unlikely(!pfn_valid(start_pfn)))
+		if (unlikely(!pfn_to_online_page(start_pfn)))
 			continue;
 
 		if (unlikely(pfn_to_nid(start_pfn) != nid))

@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static unsigned long find_biggest_section_pfn(int nid, struct zone *zone,
 	/* pfn is the end pfn of a memory section. */
 	pfn = end_pfn - 1;
 	for (; pfn >= start_pfn; pfn -= PAGES_PER_SUBSECTION) {
-		if (unlikely(!pfn_valid(pfn)))
+		if (unlikely(!pfn_to_online_page(pfn)))
 			continue;
 
 		if (unlikely(pfn_to_nid(pfn) != nid))

@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ static void shrink_zone_span(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 	 */
 	pfn = zone_start_pfn;
 	for (; pfn < zone_end_pfn; pfn += PAGES_PER_SUBSECTION) {
-		if (unlikely(!pfn_valid(pfn)))
+		if (unlikely(!pfn_to_online_page(pfn)))
 			continue;
 
 		if (page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn)) != zone)

@@ -471,6 +471,16 @@ static void __remove_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 	struct pglist_data *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE
+	/*
+	 * Zone shrinking code cannot properly deal with ZONE_DEVICE. So
+	 * we will not try to shrink the zones - which is okay as
+	 * set_zone_contiguous() cannot deal with ZONE_DEVICE either way.
+	 */
+	if (zone_idx(zone) == ZONE_DEVICE)
+		return;
+#endif
+
 	pgdat_resize_lock(zone->zone_pgdat, &flags);
 	shrink_zone_span(zone, start_pfn, start_pfn + nr_pages);
 	update_pgdat_span(pgdat);