mm/page_ext.c: check if page_ext is not prepared
online_page_ext() and page_ext_init() allocate page_ext for each
section, but they do not allocate if the first PFN is !pfn_present(pfn)
or !pfn_valid(pfn). Then section->page_ext remains as NULL.
lookup_page_ext checks NULL only if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled. For a
valid PFN, __set_page_owner will try to get page_ext through
lookup_page_ext. Without CONFIG_DEBUG_VM lookup_page_ext will misuse
NULL pointer as value 0. This incurrs invalid address access.
This is the panic example when PFN 0x100000 is not valid but PFN
0x13FC00 is being used for page_ext. section->page_ext is NULL,
get_entry returned invalid page_ext address as 0x1DFA000 for a PFN
0x13FC00.
To avoid this panic, CONFIG_DEBUG_VM should be removed so that page_ext
will be checked at all times.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 01dfa014
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Kernel BUG at ffffff80082371e0 [verbose debug info unavailable]
Internal error: Oops: 96000045 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
PC is at __set_page_owner+0x48/0x78
LR is at __set_page_owner+0x44/0x78
__set_page_owner+0x48/0x78
get_page_from_freelist+0x880/0x8e8
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x14c/0xc48
__do_page_cache_readahead+0xdc/0x264
filemap_fault+0x2ac/0x550
ext4_filemap_fault+0x3c/0x58
__do_fault+0x80/0x120
handle_mm_fault+0x704/0xbb0
do_page_fault+0x2e8/0x394
do_mem_abort+0x88/0x124
Pre-4.7 kernels also need commit f86e4271978b ("mm: check the return
value of lookup_page_ext for all call sites").
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107094131.14621-1-jaewon31.kim@samsung.com
Fixes: eefa864b701d ("mm/page_ext: resurrect struct page extending code for debugging")
Signed-off-by: Jaewon Kim <jaewon31.kim@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [depends on f86e427197, see above]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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