From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: jglisse@redhat.com, shy828301@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm/migrate.c: fix potential indeterminate pte entry in migrate_vma_insert_page()
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:26:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0bee2243-5771-4969-7b92-aaca67abc90c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210320093701.12829-4-linmiaohe@huawei.com>
On 20.03.21 10:36, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> If the zone device page does not belong to un-addressable device memory,
> the variable entry will be uninitialized and lead to indeterminate pte
> entry ultimately. Fix this unexpectant case and warn about it.
s/unexpectant/unexpected/
>
> Fixes: df6ad69838fc ("mm/device-public-memory: device memory cache coherent with CPU")
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> ---
> mm/migrate.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index 20a3bf75270a..271081b014cb 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -2972,6 +2972,13 @@ static void migrate_vma_insert_page(struct migrate_vma *migrate,
>
> swp_entry = make_device_private_entry(page, vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE);
> entry = swp_entry_to_pte(swp_entry);
> + } else {
> + /*
> + * For now we only support migrating to un-addressable
> + * device memory.
> + */
> + WARN_ON(1);
> + goto abort;
Fix it by crashing the kernel with panic_on_warn? :)
If this case can actual happen, than no WARN_ON() - rather a
pr_warn_once(). If this case cannot happen, why do we even care (it's
not a fix then)?
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-23 10:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-20 9:36 [PATCH 0/5] Cleanup and fixup for mm/migrate.c Miaohe Lin
2021-03-20 9:36 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm/migrate.c: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE on putback_movable_page() Miaohe Lin
2021-03-20 14:11 ` Rafael Aquini
2021-03-22 1:52 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-03-20 9:36 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm/migrate.c: remove unnecessary rc != MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS check in 'else' case Miaohe Lin
2021-03-23 10:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-20 9:36 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm/migrate.c: fix potential indeterminate pte entry in migrate_vma_insert_page() Miaohe Lin
2021-03-23 10:26 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2021-03-23 11:07 ` Alistair Popple
2021-03-23 11:28 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-03-23 12:15 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-03-23 11:24 ` Miaohe Lin
2021-03-20 9:37 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm/migrate.c: use helper migrate_vma_collect_skip() in migrate_vma_collect_hole() Miaohe Lin
2021-03-23 10:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-03-20 9:37 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm/migrate.c: fix potential deadlock in NUMA balancing shared exec THP case Miaohe Lin
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