[PATCH] mm, compaction: fix wrong pfn handling in __reset_isolation_pfn()

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Tue Oct 08 2019 - 11:29:41 EST


Florian and Dave reported [1] a NULL pointer dereference in
__reset_isolation_pfn(). While the exact cause is unclear, staring at the code
revealed two bugs, which might be related.

One bug is that if zone starts in the middle of pageblock, block_page might
correspond to different pfn than block_pfn, and then the pfn_valid_within()
checks will check different pfn's than those accessed via struct page. This
might result in acessing an unitialized page in CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE configs.

The other bug is that end_page refers to the first page of next pageblock and
not last page of current pageblock. The online and valid check is then wrong
and with sections, the while (page < end_page) loop might wander off actual
struct page arrays.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/87o8z1fvqu.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Reported-by: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 6b0868c820ff ("mm/compaction.c: correct zone boundary handling when resetting pageblock skip hints")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
mm/compaction.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index ce08b39d85d4..672d3c78c6ab 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -270,14 +270,15 @@ __reset_isolation_pfn(struct zone *zone, unsigned long pfn, bool check_source,

/* Ensure the start of the pageblock or zone is online and valid */
block_pfn = pageblock_start_pfn(pfn);
- block_page = pfn_to_online_page(max(block_pfn, zone->zone_start_pfn));
+ block_pfn = max(block_pfn, zone->zone_start_pfn);
+ block_page = pfn_to_online_page(block_pfn);
if (block_page) {
page = block_page;
pfn = block_pfn;
}

/* Ensure the end of the pageblock or zone is online and valid */
- block_pfn += pageblock_nr_pages;
+ block_pfn = pageblock_end_pfn(pfn) - 1;
block_pfn = min(block_pfn, zone_end_pfn(zone) - 1);
end_page = pfn_to_online_page(block_pfn);
if (!end_page)
@@ -303,7 +304,7 @@ __reset_isolation_pfn(struct zone *zone, unsigned long pfn, bool check_source,

page += (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER);
pfn += (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER);
- } while (page < end_page);
+ } while (page <= end_page);

return false;
}
--
2.23.0