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Pavel Tatashin fc170bda22 mm: don't allow deferred pages with NEED_PER_CPU_KM 
commit ab1e8d8960 upstream.

It is unsafe to do virtual to physical translations before mm_init() is
called if struct page is needed in order to determine the memory section
number (see SECTION_IN_PAGE_FLAGS).  This is because only in mm_init()
we initialize struct pages for all the allocated memory when deferred
struct pages are used.

My recent fix in commit c9e97a1997 ("mm: initialize pages on demand
during boot") exposed this problem, because it greatly reduced number of
pages that are initialized before mm_init(), but the problem existed
even before my fix, as Fengguang Wu found.

Below is a more detailed explanation of the problem.

We initialize struct pages in four places:

1. Early in boot a small set of struct pages is initialized to fill the
   first section, and lower zones.

2. During mm_init() we initialize "struct pages" for all the memory that
   is allocated, i.e reserved in memblock.

3. Using on-demand logic when pages are allocated after mm_init call
   (when memblock is finished)

4. After smp_init() when the rest free deferred pages are initialized.

The problem occurs if we try to do va to phys translation of a memory
between steps 1 and 2.  Because we have not yet initialized struct pages
for all the reserved pages, it is inherently unsafe to do va to phys if
the translation itself requires access of "struct page" as in case of
this combination: CONFIG_SPARSE && !CONFIG_SPARSE_VMEMMAP

The following path exposes the problem:

  start_kernel()
   trap_init()
    setup_cpu_entry_areas()
     setup_cpu_entry_area(cpu)
      get_cpu_gdt_paddr(cpu)
       per_cpu_ptr_to_phys(addr)
        pcpu_addr_to_page(addr)
         virt_to_page(addr)
          pfn_to_page(__pa(addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT)

We disable this path by not allowing NEED_PER_CPU_KM with deferred
struct pages feature.

The problems are discussed in these threads:
  http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180418135300.inazvpxjxowogyge@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com
  http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180419013128.iurzouiqxvcnpbvz@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com
  http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180426202619.2768-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180515175124.1770-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Fixes: 3a80a7fa79 ("mm: meminit: initialise a subset of struct pages if CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT is set")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-05-22 18:53:58 +02:00
arch powerpc/powernv: Fix NVRAM sleep in invalid context when crashing 2018-05-22 18:53:58 +02:00
block bfq-iosched: ensure to clear bic/bfqq pointers when preparing request 2018-05-01 12:58:19 -07:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - fix possible uninit-value in alg_bind() 2018-05-16 10:10:23 +02:00
Documentation arm64: Add work around for Arm Cortex-A55 Erratum 1024718 2018-05-16 10:10:25 +02:00
drivers drm: Match sysfs name in link removal to link creation 2018-05-22 18:53:58 +02:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs proc: do not access cmdline nor environ from file-backed areas 2018-05-19 10:20:27 +02:00
include tracing/x86/xen: Remove zero data size trace events trace_xen_mmu_flush_tlb{_all} 2018-05-22 18:53:57 +02:00
init kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-24 09:36:23 +02:00
kernel perf/core: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for ->aux_pages[] 2018-05-16 10:10:31 +02:00
lib radix tree: fix multi-order iteration race 2018-05-22 18:53:58 +02:00
mm mm: don't allow deferred pages with NEED_PER_CPU_KM 2018-05-22 18:53:58 +02:00
net netfilter: nf_socket: Fix out of bounds access in nf_sk_lookup_slow_v{4,6} 2018-05-22 18:53:58 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: Partially fixes the bpf.o build 2018-04-26 11:02:12 +02:00
scripts kconfig: Fix expr_free() E_NOT leak 2018-04-26 11:02:08 +02:00
security commoncap: Handle memory allocation failure. 2018-04-29 11:33:16 +02:00
sound ALSA: control: fix a redundant-copy issue 2018-05-22 18:53:56 +02:00
tools test_firmware: fix setting old custom fw path back on exit, second try 2018-05-09 09:51:54 +02:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC/ITS: protect kvm_read_guest() calls with SRCU lock 2018-05-22 18:53:57 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS dt-bindings: Document mti,mips-cpc binding 2018-03-15 10:54:35 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.42 2018-05-19 10:20:27 +02:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.