Both arch_add_memory() and arch_remove_memory() expect a single threaded
context.
For example, arch/x86/mm/init_64.c::kernel_physical_mapping_init() does
not hold any locks over this check and branch:
if (pgd_val(*pgd)) {
pud = (pud_t *)pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd);
paddr_last = phys_pud_init(pud, __pa(vaddr),
__pa(vaddr_end),
page_size_mask);
continue;
}
pud = alloc_low_page();
paddr_last = phys_pud_init(pud, __pa(vaddr), __pa(vaddr_end),
page_size_mask);
The result is that two threads calling devm_memremap_pages()
simultaneously can end up colliding on pgd initialization. This leads
to crash signatures like the following where the loser of the race
initializes the wrong pgd entry:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at
ffff888ebfff0000
IP: memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10
PGD
2f8e8fc067 PUD 0 /* <---- Invalid PUD */
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
CPU: 54 PID: 3818 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.6.7+ #13
task:
ffff882fac290040 ti:
ffff882f887a4000 task.ti:
ffff882f887a4000
RIP: memcpy_erms+0x6/0x10
[..]
Call Trace:
? pmem_do_bvec+0x205/0x370 [nd_pmem]
? blk_queue_enter+0x3a/0x280
pmem_rw_page+0x38/0x80 [nd_pmem]
bdev_read_page+0x84/0xb0
Hold the standard memory hotplug mutex over calls to
arch_{add,remove}_memory().
Fixes: 3db57a95c3ee ("add devm_memremap_pages")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148357647831.9498.12606007370121652979.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
/* pages are dead and unused, undo the arch mapping */
align_start = res->start & ~(SECTION_SIZE - 1);
align_size = ALIGN(resource_size(res), SECTION_SIZE);
+ mem_hotplug_begin();
arch_remove_memory(align_start, align_size);
+ mem_hotplug_done();
untrack_pfn(NULL, PHYS_PFN(align_start), align_size);
pgmap_radix_release(res);
dev_WARN_ONCE(dev, pgmap->altmap && pgmap->altmap->alloc,
if (error)
goto err_pfn_remap;
+ mem_hotplug_begin();
error = arch_add_memory(nid, align_start, align_size, true);
+ mem_hotplug_done();
if (error)
goto err_add_memory;