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Mikhail Zaslonko 2830bf6f05 mm, memory_hotplug: initialize struct pages for the full memory section
If memory end is not aligned with the sparse memory section boundary,
the mapping of such a section is only partly initialized.  This may lead
to VM_BUG_ON due to uninitialized struct page access from
is_mem_section_removable() or test_pages_in_a_zone() function triggered
by memory_hotplug sysfs handlers:

Here are the the panic examples:
 CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y
 CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS=y

 kernel parameter mem=2050M
 --------------------------
 page:000003d082008000 is uninitialized and poisoned
 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
 Call Trace:
 ( test_pages_in_a_zone+0xde/0x160)
   show_valid_zones+0x5c/0x190
   dev_attr_show+0x34/0x70
   sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xc8/0x148
   seq_read+0x204/0x480
   __vfs_read+0x32/0x178
   vfs_read+0x82/0x138
   ksys_read+0x5a/0xb0
   system_call+0xdc/0x2d8
 Last Breaking-Event-Address:
   test_pages_in_a_zone+0xde/0x160
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops

 kernel parameter mem=3075M
 --------------------------
 page:000003d08300c000 is uninitialized and poisoned
 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(p))
 Call Trace:
 ( is_mem_section_removable+0xb4/0x190)
   show_mem_removable+0x9a/0xd8
   dev_attr_show+0x34/0x70
   sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xc8/0x148
   seq_read+0x204/0x480
   __vfs_read+0x32/0x178
   vfs_read+0x82/0x138
   ksys_read+0x5a/0xb0
   system_call+0xdc/0x2d8
 Last Breaking-Event-Address:
   is_mem_section_removable+0xb4/0x190
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception: panic_on_oops

Fix the problem by initializing the last memory section of each zone in
memmap_init_zone() till the very end, even if it goes beyond the zone end.

Michal said:

: This has alwways been problem AFAIU.  It just went unnoticed because we
: have zeroed memmaps during allocation before f7f99100d8 ("mm: stop
: zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap") and so the above test
: would simply skip these ranges as belonging to zone 0 or provided a
: garbage.
:
: So I guess we do care for post f7f99100d8 kernels mostly and
: therefore Fixes: f7f99100d8 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during
: allocation in vmemmap")

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181212172712.34019-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: f7f99100d8 ("mm: stop zeroing memory during allocation in vmemmap")
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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