linux/mm
Michal Hocko 687875fb7d mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in __count_immobile_pages
Fix the following NULL ptr dereference caused by

  cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory0/removable

Pid: 13979, comm: sed Not tainted 3.0.13-0.5-default #1 IBM BladeCenter LS21 -[7971PAM]-/Server Blade
RIP: __count_immobile_pages+0x4/0x100
Process sed (pid: 13979, threadinfo ffff880221c36000, task ffff88022e788480)
Call Trace:
  is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x34/0x40
  is_mem_section_removable+0x74/0xf0
  show_mem_removable+0x41/0x70
  sysfs_read_file+0xfe/0x1c0
  vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
  sys_read+0x53/0xa0
  system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

We are crashing because we are trying to dereference NULL zone which
came from pfn=0 (struct page ffffea0000000000). According to the boot
log this page is marked reserved:
e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved)

and early_node_map confirms that:
early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges
    1: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009c
    1: 0x00000100 -> 0x000bffa3
    1: 0x00100000 -> 0x00240000

The problem is that memory_present works in PAGE_SECTION_MASK aligned
blocks so the reserved range sneaks into the the section as well.  This
also means that free_area_init_node will not take care of those reserved
pages and they stay uninitialized.

When we try to read the removable status we walk through all available
sections and hope that the zone is valid for all pages in the section.
But this is not true in this case as the zone and nid are not initialized.

We have only one node in this particular case and it is marked as node=1
(rather than 0) and that made the problem visible because page_to_nid will
return 0 and there are no zones on the node.

Let's check that the zone is valid and that the given pfn falls into its
boundaries and mark the section not removable.  This might cause some
false positives, probably, but we do not have any sane way to find out
whether the page is reserved by the platform or it is just not used for
whatever other reasons.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-23 08:38:47 -08:00
..
Kconfig Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock 2011-11-28 09:46:22 -08:00
Kconfig.debug mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
Makefile Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
backing-dev.c freezer: implement and use kthread_freezable_should_stop() 2011-11-21 12:32:23 -08:00
bootmem.c mm: bootmem: try harder to free pages in bulk 2012-01-10 16:30:45 -08:00
bounce.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
cleancache.c mm: cleancache core ops functions and config 2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c mm, x86: Remove debug_pagealloc_enabled 2011-12-06 09:24:07 +01:00
dmapool.c mm: fix implicit stat.h usage in dmapool.c 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fadvise.c fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED 2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
failslab.c switch debugfs to umode_t 2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
filemap.c memcg: add mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache() to fix LRU issue 2012-01-12 20:13:04 -08:00
filemap_xip.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
fremap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
highmem.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
huge_memory.c memcg: fix split_huge_page_refcounts() 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: avoid bogus counter of surplus huge page 2012-01-10 16:30:45 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
init-mm.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
internal.h mm: thp: tail page refcounting fix 2011-11-02 16:06:57 -07:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc 2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c kmemleak: Add support for memory hotplug 2011-12-02 16:12:42 +00:00
ksm.c memcg: clear pc->mem_cgroup if necessary. 2012-01-12 20:13:07 -08:00
maccess.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
madvise.c fs: kill i_alloc_sem 2011-07-20 20:47:46 -04:00
memblock.c memblock: Reimplement memblock allocation using reverse free area iterator 2011-12-08 10:22:09 -08:00
memcontrol.c net: move sock_update_memcg outside of CONFIG_INET 2012-01-17 10:15:45 -05:00
memory-failure.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
memory.c thp: add tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry 2012-01-12 20:13:08 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
mempool.c mempool: fix first round failure behavior 2012-01-10 16:30:45 -08:00
migrate.c mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction 2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
mincore.c mm: clarify the radix_tree exceptional cases 2011-08-03 14:25:24 -10:00
mlock.c Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmap.c mm: simplify find_vma_prev() 2012-01-10 16:30:44 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
mmzone.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
mprotect.c thp: mprotect: transparent huge page support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mremap.c mremap: enforce rmap src/dst vma ordering in case of vma_merge() succeeding in copy_vma() 2012-01-10 16:30:44 -08:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nobootmem.c Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock 2011-11-28 09:46:22 -08:00
nommu.c xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directly 2011-11-16 12:13:08 -05:00
oom_kill.c mm: unify remaining mem_cont, mem, etc. variable names to memcg 2012-01-12 20:13:06 -08:00
page-writeback.c Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux 2012-01-10 16:59:59 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in __count_immobile_pages 2012-01-23 08:38:47 -08:00
page_cgroup.c page_cgroup: drop multi CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2012-01-12 20:13:08 -08:00
page_io.c block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG 2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
page_isolation.c mm: page_isolation: codeclean fix comment and rm unneeded val init 2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagewalk: fix code comment for THP 2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator 2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: fix chunk range calculation 2011-11-22 08:09:46 -08:00
percpu.c Kmemleak patches 2012-01-14 18:11:11 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm/pgtable-generic.c: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build 2011-01-26 10:49:58 +10:00
prio_tree.c sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage 2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
process_vm_access.c Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
quicklist.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
readahead.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
rmap.c mm: unify remaining mem_cont, mem, etc. variable names to memcg 2012-01-12 20:13:06 -08:00
shmem.c vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * 2012-01-06 23:19:54 -05:00
slab.c Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux 2012-01-11 18:52:23 -08:00
slob.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
slub.c mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_DOUBLE config option 2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: delete various needless include <linux/module.h> 2011-10-31 09:20:11 -04:00
sparse.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
swap.c mm: remove del_page_from_lru, add page_off_lru 2012-01-12 20:13:10 -08:00
swap_state.c memcg: clear pc->mem_cgroup if necessary. 2012-01-12 20:13:07 -08:00
swapfile.c mm: unify remaining mem_cont, mem, etc. variable names to memcg 2012-01-12 20:13:06 -08:00
thrash.c mm/thrash.c: quiet sparse noise 2011-10-31 17:30:50 -07:00
truncate.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
util.c mm: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h 2011-10-31 09:20:12 -04:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: eliminate extra loop in pcpu_get_vm_areas error path 2012-01-12 20:13:10 -08:00
vmscan.c mm: rearrange putback_inactive_pages 2012-01-12 20:13:10 -08:00
vmstat.c mm,x86,um: move CMPXCHG_LOCAL config option 2012-01-12 20:13:03 -08:00