From: mel@skynet.ie (Mel Gorman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid unsafe use of struct pages in move_freepages when CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is set
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:10:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070314191005.GA21733@skynet.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703141236.09599.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
In the majority of situations, mem_map is guaranteed to be valid within
a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block of pages. However, when CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE
is set, there is no guarantee that mem_map exists for the entire block.
This means that when checking struct pages around a known valid page, there
is no guarantee they are valid.
move_freepages() operates on a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES range of pages based on
a known valid page retrieved from the free lists. However, a bug check is
unsafe when CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is set and pfn_valid() is called too late.
This patch disables the bug check when CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE and checks
pfn_valid() earlier before calling PageBuddy(). It applies on top of
move-free-pages-between-lists-on-steal-fix-2.patch from Yasunori Goto in -mm.
Credit to Bjorn Helgaas for reporting this bug and testing.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
page_alloc.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -rup -X /usr/src/patchset-0.6/bin//dontdiff linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2-goto/mm/page_alloc.c linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2-zone_holes_ia64_fix/mm/page_alloc.c
--- linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2-goto/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-03-14 16:07:23.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2-zone_holes_ia64_fix/mm/page_alloc.c 2007-03-14 18:51:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -707,13 +707,18 @@ int move_freepages(struct zone *zone,
unsigned long order;
int blocks_moved = 0;
+#ifndef CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE
+ /*
+ * page_zone is not safe to call in this context when
+ * CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is set. This bug check is probably redundant
+ * anyway as we check zone boundaries in move_freepages_block().
+ * Remove at a later date when no bug reports exist related to
+ * CONFIG_PAGE_GROUP_BY_MOBILITY
+ */
BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page - 1));
+#endif
for (page = start_page; page < end_page;) {
- if (!PageBuddy(page)) {
- page++;
- continue;
- }
#ifdef CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE
if (!pfn_valid(page_to_pfn(page))) {
page++;
@@ -721,6 +726,11 @@ int move_freepages(struct zone *zone,
}
#endif
+ if (!PageBuddy(page)) {
+ page++;
+ continue;
+ }
+
order = page_order(page);
list_del(&page->lru);
list_add(&page->lru,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-14 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-08 4:19 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-03-08 7:39 ` [PATCH] fix BUG_ON check at move_freepages() (Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm2) Yasunori Goto
2007-03-08 11:01 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-08 14:52 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Con Kolivas
2007-03-08 21:04 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Con Kolivas
2007-03-08 21:56 ` 2.6.21-rc3: /proc broken Con Kolivas
2007-03-09 8:53 ` Russell King
2007-03-09 9:59 ` Con Kolivas
2007-03-12 12:56 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 hangs my opteron during bootup, ACPI? Helge Hafting
2007-03-12 13:25 ` Luming Yu
2007-03-12 19:56 ` Len Brown
2007-03-17 0:10 ` Helge Hafting
2007-03-14 3:52 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 (oops in move_freepages) Bjorn Helgaas
2007-03-14 9:44 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-14 15:11 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-03-14 16:13 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-14 16:52 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-03-14 17:21 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-14 18:36 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-03-14 18:59 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-14 20:46 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-03-14 20:55 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-14 19:10 ` Mel Gorman [this message]
[not found] ` <200703141457.06489.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
2007-03-15 1:14 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 (BUG in pci_restore_state()) Eric W. Biederman
2007-03-19 19:17 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Randy Dunlap
2007-03-19 19:55 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-03-19 23:01 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Kay Sievers
2007-03-19 19:40 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Randy Dunlap
2007-03-19 22:26 ` [PATCH] ptrace needs PROC_FS Randy Dunlap
2007-03-19 22:48 ` Roland McGrath
2007-03-20 11:18 ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-20 0:27 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Randy Dunlap
2007-03-20 0:39 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-03-20 0:51 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Randy Dunlap
2007-03-20 18:51 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Roland McGrath
2007-03-20 12:14 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Sam Ravnborg
2007-03-20 15:43 ` 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 Randy Dunlap
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