Re: [PATCH] mm: fix invalid node in alloc_migrate_target()

From: Naoya Horiguchi
Date: Tue Mar 29 2016 - 21:16:14 EST


On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 02:25:03PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 03/25/2016 07:56 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> >It is incorrect to use next_node to find a target node, it will
> >return MAX_NUMNODES or invalid node. This will lead to crash in
> >buddy system allocation.
>
> One possible place of crash is:
> alloc_huge_page_node()
> dequeue_huge_page_node()
> [accesses h->hugepage_freelists[nid] with size MAX_NUMANODES]
>
> >Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Fixes: c8721bbbdd36 ("mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle
> hugepage")
> Cc: stable
> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

Thanks everyone for finding/fixing the bug!

Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> >---
> > mm/page_isolation.c | 8 ++++----
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/mm/page_isolation.c b/mm/page_isolation.c
> >index 92c4c36..31555b6 100644
> >--- a/mm/page_isolation.c
> >+++ b/mm/page_isolation.c
> >@@ -289,11 +289,11 @@ struct page *alloc_migrate_target(struct page *page, unsigned long private,
> > * now as a simple work-around, we use the next node for destination.
> > */
> > if (PageHuge(page)) {
> >- nodemask_t src = nodemask_of_node(page_to_nid(page));
> >- nodemask_t dst;
> >- nodes_complement(dst, src);
> >+ int node = next_online_node(page_to_nid(page));
> >+ if (node == MAX_NUMNODES)
> >+ node = first_online_node;
> > return alloc_huge_page_node(page_hstate(compound_head(page)),
> >- next_node(page_to_nid(page), dst));
> >+ node);
> > }
> >
> > if (PageHighMem(page))
> >
>