We have a single node system with node 0 disabled: Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24 Number of physical nodes 2 Skipping disabled node 0 Node 1 MemBase 0000000000000000 Limit 00000000fbff0000 NODE_DATA(1) allocated [mem 0xfbfda000-0xfbfeffff]
This causes crashes in memcg when system boots: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 #PF error: [normal kernel read fault] ... RIP: 0010:list_lru_add+0x94/0x170 ... Call Trace: d_lru_add+0x44/0x50 dput.part.34+0xfc/0x110 __fput+0x108/0x230 task_work_run+0x9f/0xc0 exit_to_usermode_loop+0xf5/0x100 It is reproducible as far as 4.12. I did not try older kernels. You have to have a new enough systemd, e.g. 241 (the reason is unknown -- was not investigated). Cannot be reproduced with systemd 234. The system crashes because the size of lru array is never updated in memcg_update_all_list_lrus and the reads are past the zero-sized array, causing dereferences of random memory. The root cause are list_lru_memcg_aware checks in the list_lru code. The test in list_lru_memcg_aware is broken: it assumes node 0 is always present, but it is not true on some systems as can be seen above. So fix this by checking the first online node instead of node 0. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: Raghavendra K T <[email protected]> --- mm/list_lru.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/list_lru.c b/mm/list_lru.c index 0730bf8ff39f..7689910f1a91 100644 --- a/mm/list_lru.c +++ b/mm/list_lru.c @@ -37,11 +37,7 @@ static int lru_shrinker_id(struct list_lru *lru) static inline bool list_lru_memcg_aware(struct list_lru *lru) { - /* - * This needs node 0 to be always present, even - * in the systems supporting sparse numa ids. - */ - return !!lru->node[0].memcg_lrus; + return !!lru->node[first_online_node].memcg_lrus; } static inline struct list_lru_one * -- 2.21.0
