Re: mem_cgroup_page_lruvec: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULLpointer dereference at 00000000000001a8

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Jun 13 2013 - 11:19:11 EST


On Thu 13-06-13 16:57:23, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am 13.06.2013 16:45, schrieb Richard Weinberger:
> >Am 13.06.2013 16:39, schrieb Michal Hocko:
> >>On Thu 13-06-13 15:34:59, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >>>Am 13.06.2013 15:32, schrieb Michal Hocko:
> >>>>Ohh and could you post the config please? Sorry should have asked
> >>>>earlier.
> >>>
> >>>See attachment.
> >>
> >>Nothing unusual there. Could you enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM maybe it will
> >>help too catch the problem earlier.
> >
> >OK
> >
> >>>>On Thu 13-06-13 15:29:08, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On Thu 13-06-13 14:06:20, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> >>>>>[...]
> >>>>>>All code
> >>>>>>========
> >>>>>> 0: 89 50 08 mov %edx,0x8(%rax)
> >>>>>> 3: 48 89 d1 mov %rdx,%rcx
> >>>>>> 6: 0f 1f 40 00 nopl 0x0(%rax)
> >>>>>> a: 49 8b 04 24 mov (%r12),%rax
> >>>>>> e: 48 89 c2 mov %rax,%rdx
> >>>>>> 11: 48 c1 e8 38 shr $0x38,%rax
> >>>>>> 15: 83 e0 03 and $0x3,%eax
> >>>>> nid = page_to_nid
> >>>>>> 18: 48 c1 ea 3a shr $0x3a,%rdx
> >>>>> zid = page_zonenum
> >>
> >>Ohh, I am wrong here. rdx should be nid and eax the zid.
> >>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> 1c: 48 69 c0 38 01 00 00 imul $0x138,%rax,%rax
> >>>>>> 23: 48 03 84 d1 e0 02 00 add 0x2e0(%rcx,%rdx,8),%rax
> >>>>> &memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->zoneinfo[zid]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> 2a: 00
> >>>>>> 2b:* 48 3b 58 70 cmp 0x70(%rax),%rbx <-- trapping instruction
> >>>>>
> >>>>>OK, so this maps to:
> >>>>> if (unlikely(lruvec->zone != zone)) <<<
> >>>>> lruvec->zone = zone;
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>[35355.883056] RSP: 0000:ffff88003d523aa8 EFLAGS: 00010002
> >>>>>>[35355.883056] RAX: 0000000000000138 RBX: ffff88003fffa600 RCX: ffff88003e04a800
> >>>>>>[35355.883056] RDX: 0000000000000020 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000028500
> >>>>>>[35355.883056] RBP: ffff88003d523ab8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> >>>>>>[35355.883056] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dead000000100100 R12: ffffea0000a14000
> >>>>>>[35355.883056] R13: ffff88003e04b138 R14: ffff88003d523bb8 R15: ffffea0000a14020
> >>>>>>[35355.883056] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003fd80000(0000)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>RAX (lruvec) is obviously incorrect and it doesn't make any sense. rax should
> >>>>>contain an address at an offset from ffff88003e04a800 But there is 0x138 there
> >>>>>instead.
> >>
> >>Hmm, now that I am looking at the registers again. RDX which should be
> >>nid seems to be quite big. It says this is node 32. Does the machine
> >>have really so many NUMA nodes?
> >
> >No. It's a KVM guest with two CPUs. Nothing special.
> >qemu command line:
> >qemu-kvm -m 1G -drive file=lxc_host.qcow2,if=virtio -nographic -kernel linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage -append console=ttyS0 root=/dev/vda2 -net user,hostfwd=tcp::5555-:22 -net
> >nic,model=e1000 -smp 4

OK, then something probably overwrites page->flags. I would be more
inclined to blame some other code ;)
Maybe DEBUG_VM will start shouting earlier

> Errr, I meant four CPUs. :)

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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