From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Subject: Re: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 52 at mm/page_alloc.c:4826 __alloc_pages_nodemask (Re: [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler)
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 08:51:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200608065120.GA17859@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1fc7ce08-26a7-59ff-e580-4e6c22554752@oracle.com>
On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> It's easy to reproduce by just doing
>
> read(open("/proc/sys/vm/swappiness", O_RDONLY), 0, 512UL * 1024 * 1024
> * 1024);
>
> or so. Reverting the commit fixes the issue for me.
Yes, doing giant allocations will fail and trace. We have to options
here that both seems sensible:
- trunate sysctrl calls to some sensible length
- (optionally) use vmalloc
Is this a real application or just a test case trying to do the
stupidmost possible thing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-08 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-24 6:43 pass kernel pointers to the sysctl ->proc_handler method v3 Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-24 6:43 ` [PATCH 1/5] bpf-cgroup: remove unused exports Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-27 21:23 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-04-24 6:43 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm: remove watermark_boost_factor_sysctl_handler Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-04 18:41 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-24 6:43 ` [PATCH 3/5] sysctl: remove all extern declaration from sysctl.c Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-04 1:25 ` Stephen Rothwell
2020-05-04 18:42 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-24 6:43 ` [PATCH 4/5] sysctl: avoid forward declarations Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-04 18:44 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-24 6:43 ` [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-24 19:06 ` Andrey Ignatov
2020-04-27 5:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-05-04 19:01 ` Kees Cook
2020-05-05 5:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-04 20:22 ` WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 52 at mm/page_alloc.c:4826 __alloc_pages_nodemask (Re: [PATCH 5/5] sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler) Vegard Nossum
2020-06-08 6:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-06-08 7:45 ` Vegard Nossum
2020-06-08 13:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-08 16:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-08 16:49 ` sdf
2020-04-26 15:51 ` pass kernel pointers to the sysctl ->proc_handler method v3 Alexei Starovoitov
2020-04-27 5:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-26 15:59 ` Al Viro
2020-04-27 5:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-04-27 7:15 ` Al Viro
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