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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-29 11:32:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-29 11:32:28 -0700
commit6345d24daf0c1fffe6642081d783cdf653ebaa5c (patch)
tree415a253621279111bd481d48cbb86174c70b952a /kernel/fork.c
parentcab0d85c8dfcad4d799f9c294571440c6f1db091 (diff)
downloadlinux-6345d24daf0c1fffe6642081d783cdf653ebaa5c.tar.gz
mm: Fix boot crash in mm_alloc()
Thomas Gleixner reports that we now have a boot crash triggered by
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
    IP: [<c11ae035>] find_next_bit+0x55/0xb0
    Call Trace:
     [<c11addda>] cpumask_any_but+0x2a/0x70
     [<c102396b>] flush_tlb_mm+0x2b/0x80
     [<c1022705>] pud_populate+0x35/0x50
     [<c10227ba>] pgd_alloc+0x9a/0xf0
     [<c103a3fc>] mm_init+0xec/0x120
     [<c103a7a3>] mm_alloc+0x53/0xd0

which was introduced by commit de03c72cfce5 ("mm: convert
mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t"), and is due to wrong ordering of
mm_init() vs mm_init_cpumask

Thomas wrote a patch to just fix the ordering of initialization, but I
hate the new double allocation in the fork path, so I ended up instead
doing some more radical surgery to clean it all up.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c42
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ca406d916713..0276c30401a0 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -484,20 +484,6 @@ static void mm_init_aio(struct mm_struct *mm)
 #endif
 }
 
-int mm_init_cpumask(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mm_struct *oldmm)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
-	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&mm->cpu_vm_mask_var, GFP_KERNEL))
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
-	if (oldmm)
-		cpumask_copy(mm_cpumask(mm), mm_cpumask(oldmm));
-	else
-		memset(mm_cpumask(mm), 0, cpumask_size());
-#endif
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static struct mm_struct * mm_init(struct mm_struct * mm, struct task_struct *p)
 {
 	atomic_set(&mm->mm_users, 1);
@@ -538,17 +524,8 @@ struct mm_struct * mm_alloc(void)
 		return NULL;
 
 	memset(mm, 0, sizeof(*mm));
-	mm = mm_init(mm, current);
-	if (!mm)
-		return NULL;
-
-	if (mm_init_cpumask(mm, NULL)) {
-		mm_free_pgd(mm);
-		free_mm(mm);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
-	return mm;
+	mm_init_cpumask(mm);
+	return mm_init(mm, current);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -559,7 +536,6 @@ struct mm_struct * mm_alloc(void)
 void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	BUG_ON(mm == &init_mm);
-	free_cpumask_var(mm->cpu_vm_mask_var);
 	mm_free_pgd(mm);
 	destroy_context(mm);
 	mmu_notifier_mm_destroy(mm);
@@ -753,6 +729,7 @@ struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
 		goto fail_nomem;
 
 	memcpy(mm, oldmm, sizeof(*mm));
+	mm_init_cpumask(mm);
 
 	/* Initializing for Swap token stuff */
 	mm->token_priority = 0;
@@ -765,9 +742,6 @@ struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (!mm_init(mm, tsk))
 		goto fail_nomem;
 
-	if (mm_init_cpumask(mm, oldmm))
-		goto fail_nocpumask;
-
 	if (init_new_context(tsk, mm))
 		goto fail_nocontext;
 
@@ -794,9 +768,6 @@ fail_nomem:
 	return NULL;
 
 fail_nocontext:
-	free_cpumask_var(mm->cpu_vm_mask_var);
-
-fail_nocpumask:
 	/*
 	 * If init_new_context() failed, we cannot use mmput() to free the mm
 	 * because it calls destroy_context()
@@ -1591,6 +1562,13 @@ void __init proc_caches_init(void)
 	fs_cachep = kmem_cache_create("fs_cache",
 			sizeof(struct fs_struct), 0,
 			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_NOTRACK, NULL);
+	/*
+	 * FIXME! The "sizeof(struct mm_struct)" currently includes the
+	 * whole struct cpumask for the OFFSTACK case. We could change
+	 * this to *only* allocate as much of it as required by the
+	 * maximum number of CPU's we can ever have.  The cpumask_allocation
+	 * is at the end of the structure, exactly for that reason.
+	 */
 	mm_cachep = kmem_cache_create("mm_struct",
 			sizeof(struct mm_struct), ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN,
 			SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_NOTRACK, NULL);