tree 261d6f17c73ea2259cee4b0d9dd11160eb51c89d
parent 8380ce479010f2f779587b462a9b4681934297c3
author Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> 1585448249 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1585500426 -0700

mm/sparse: fix kernel crash with pfn_section_valid check

Fix the crash like this:

    BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000000
    Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000c3447c
    Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
    LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
    CPU: 11 PID: 7519 Comm: lt-ndctl Not tainted 5.6.0-rc7-autotest #1
    ...
    NIP [c000000000c3447c] vmemmap_populated+0x98/0xc0
    LR [c000000000088354] vmemmap_free+0x144/0x320
    Call Trace:
       section_deactivate+0x220/0x240
       __remove_pages+0x118/0x170
       arch_remove_memory+0x3c/0x150
       memunmap_pages+0x1cc/0x2f0
       devm_action_release+0x30/0x50
       release_nodes+0x2f8/0x3e0
       device_release_driver_internal+0x168/0x270
       unbind_store+0x130/0x170
       drv_attr_store+0x44/0x60
       sysfs_kf_write+0x68/0x80
       kernfs_fop_write+0x100/0x290
       __vfs_write+0x3c/0x70
       vfs_write+0xcc/0x240
       ksys_write+0x7c/0x140
       system_call+0x5c/0x68

The crash is due to NULL dereference at

	test_bit(idx, ms->usage->subsection_map);

due to ms->usage = NULL in pfn_section_valid()

With commit d41e2f3bd546 ("mm/hotplug: fix hot remove failure in
SPARSEMEM|!VMEMMAP case") section_mem_map is set to NULL after
depopulate_section_mem().  This was done so that pfn_page() can work
correctly with kernel config that disables SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.  With that
config pfn_to_page does

	__section_mem_map_addr(__sec) + __pfn;

where

  static inline struct page *__section_mem_map_addr(struct mem_section *section)
  {
	unsigned long map = section->section_mem_map;
	map &= SECTION_MAP_MASK;
	return (struct page *)map;
  }

Now with SPASEMEM_VMEMAP enabled, mem_section->usage->subsection_map is
used to check the pfn validity (pfn_valid()).  Since section_deactivate
release mem_section->usage if a section is fully deactivated,
pfn_valid() check after a subsection_deactivate cause a kernel crash.

  static inline int pfn_valid(unsigned long pfn)
  {
  ...
	return early_section(ms) || pfn_section_valid(ms, pfn);
  }

where

  static inline int pfn_section_valid(struct mem_section *ms, unsigned long pfn)
  {
	int idx = subsection_map_index(pfn);

	return test_bit(idx, ms->usage->subsection_map);
  }

Avoid this by clearing SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP when mem_section->usage is
freed.  For architectures like ppc64 where large pages are used for
vmmemap mapping (16MB), a specific vmemmap mapping can cover multiple
sections.  Hence before a vmemmap mapping page can be freed, the kernel
needs to make sure there are no valid sections within that mapping.
Clearing the section valid bit before depopulate_section_memap enables
this.

[aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: add comment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200326133235.343616-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.comLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200325031914.107660-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: d41e2f3bd546 ("mm/hotplug: fix hot remove failure in SPARSEMEM|!VMEMMAP case")
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>