Commit fbbd7295 authored by Paul Mackerras's avatar Paul Mackerras Committed by Luis Henriques

slab: fix nodeid bounds check for non-contiguous node IDs

commit 7c3fbbdd upstream.

The bounds check for nodeid in ____cache_alloc_node gives false
positives on machines where the node IDs are not contiguous, leading to
a panic at boot time.  For example, on a POWER8 machine the node IDs are
typically 0, 1, 16 and 17.  This means that num_online_nodes() returns
4, so when ____cache_alloc_node is called with nodeid = 16 the VM_BUG_ON
triggers, like this:

  kernel BUG at /home/paulus/kernel/kvm/mm/slab.c:3079!
  Call Trace:
    .____cache_alloc_node+0x5c/0x270 (unreliable)
    .kmem_cache_alloc_node_trace+0xdc/0x360
    .init_list+0x3c/0x128
    .kmem_cache_init+0x1dc/0x258
    .start_kernel+0x2a0/0x568
    start_here_common+0x20/0xa8

To fix this, we instead compare the nodeid with MAX_NUMNODES, and
additionally make sure it isn't negative (since nodeid is an int).  The
check is there mainly to protect the array dereference in the get_node()
call in the next line, and the array being dereferenced is of size
MAX_NUMNODES.  If the nodeid is in range but invalid (for example if the
node is off-line), the BUG_ON in the next line will catch that.

Fixes: 14e50c6a ("mm: slab: Verify the nodeid passed to ____cache_alloc_node")
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarYasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
parent 7a26114b
......@@ -3225,7 +3225,7 @@ static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags,
void *obj;
int x;
VM_BUG_ON(nodeid > num_online_nodes());
VM_BUG_ON(nodeid < 0 || nodeid >= MAX_NUMNODES);
n = cachep->node[nodeid];
BUG_ON(!n);
......
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