From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 11/12] libnvdimm/pfn: Fix fsdax-mode namespace info-block zero-fields
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:09:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jL4V=cV0rb=CYFDN=hs-1ETyH8JXJ2DOT3iB4UQemJXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190417150202.b7cec444cf81ed44a150ea9d@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 3:02 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:39:52 -0700 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>
> > At namespace creation time there is the potential for the "expected to
> > be zero" fields of a 'pfn' info-block to be filled with indeterminate
> > data. While the kernel buffer is zeroed on allocation it is immediately
> > overwritten by nd_pfn_validate() filling it with the current contents of
> > the on-media info-block location. For fields like, 'flags' and the
> > 'padding' it potentially means that future implementations can not rely
> > on those fields being zero.
> >
> > In preparation to stop using the 'start_pad' and 'end_trunc' fields for
> > section alignment, arrange for fields that are not explicitly
> > initialized to be guaranteed zero. Bump the minor version to indicate it
> > is safe to assume the 'padding' and 'flags' are zero. Otherwise, this
> > corruption is expected to benign since all other critical fields are
> > explicitly initialized.
> >
> > Fixes: 32ab0a3f5170 ("libnvdimm, pmem: 'struct page' for pmem")
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>
> Buried at the end of a 12 patch series. Should this be a standalone
> patch, suitable for a prompt merge?
It's not a problem unless a kernel implementation is explicitly
expecting those fields to be zero-initialized. I only marked it for
-stable in case some future kernel backports patch12. Otherwise it's
benign on older kernels that don't have patch12 since all fields are
indeed initialized.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-17 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-17 18:38 [PATCH v6 00/12] mm: Sub-section memory hotplug support Dan Williams
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 01/12] mm/sparsemem: Introduce struct mem_section_usage Dan Williams
2019-05-01 23:25 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-02 6:07 ` Dan Williams
2019-05-02 14:16 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-04 0:22 ` Dan Williams
2019-05-04 15:55 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 02/12] mm/sparsemem: Introduce common definitions for the size and mask of a section Dan Williams
2019-05-02 14:53 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-03 0:41 ` Dan Williams
2019-05-03 10:35 ` Robin Murphy
2019-05-03 12:57 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-03 13:00 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 03/12] mm/sparsemem: Add helpers track active portions of a section at boot Dan Williams
2019-04-25 14:33 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-25 14:43 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-26 12:57 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-05-02 16:12 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-04 19:26 ` Dan Williams
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 04/12] mm/hotplug: Prepare shrink_{zone, pgdat}_span for sub-section removal Dan Williams
2019-04-19 23:09 ` Ralph Campbell
2019-04-19 23:13 ` Dan Williams
2019-04-26 13:59 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-26 14:00 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-05-02 19:18 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 05/12] mm/sparsemem: Convert kmalloc_section_memmap() to populate_section_memmap() Dan Williams
2019-05-02 19:28 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 06/12] mm/hotplug: Add mem-hotplug restrictions for remove_memory() Dan Williams
2019-04-23 21:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-24 18:07 ` Dan Williams
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 07/12] mm: Kill is_dev_zone() helper Dan Williams
2019-04-17 20:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-04-26 14:04 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-05-02 20:37 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 08/12] mm/sparsemem: Prepare for sub-section ranges Dan Williams
2019-05-02 21:25 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 09/12] mm/sparsemem: Support sub-section hotplug Dan Williams
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 10/12] mm/devm_memremap_pages: Enable sub-section remap Dan Williams
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 11/12] libnvdimm/pfn: Fix fsdax-mode namespace info-block zero-fields Dan Williams
2019-04-17 22:02 ` Andrew Morton
2019-04-17 22:09 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2019-04-17 18:39 ` [PATCH v6 12/12] libnvdimm/pfn: Stop padding pmem namespaces to section alignment Dan Williams
2019-04-17 22:03 ` [PATCH v6 00/12] mm: Sub-section memory hotplug support Andrew Morton
2019-04-17 22:59 ` Dan Williams
2019-04-18 2:09 ` Dan Williams
2019-04-18 12:45 ` Jeff Moyer
2019-04-19 3:25 ` Dan Williams
2019-04-23 13:16 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-04-24 20:43 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-02 22:46 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-02 23:20 ` Dan Williams
2019-05-02 23:21 ` Dan Williams
2019-05-03 10:48 ` Oscar Salvador
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