FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/memory-failure.c: don't access uninitialized memmaps in" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm/memory-failure.c: don't access uninitialized memmaps in" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree
@ 2019-10-27 13:41 gregkh
  2019-10-28  8:44 ` Sasha Levin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: gregkh @ 2019-10-27 13:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: david, akpm, mhocko, n-horiguchi, stable, torvalds; +Cc: stable


The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 96c804a6ae8c59a9092b3d5dd581198472063184 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:19:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mm/memory-failure.c: don't access uninitialized memmaps in
 memory_failure()

We should check for pfn_to_online_page() to not access uninitialized
memmaps.  Reshuffle the code so we don't have to duplicate the error
message.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191009142435.3975-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Fixes: f1dd2cd13c4b ("mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until online")	[visible after d0dc12e86b319]
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.13+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 0ae72b6acee7..3151c87dff73 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -1257,17 +1257,19 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
 	if (!sysctl_memory_failure_recovery)
 		panic("Memory failure on page %lx", pfn);
 
-	if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) {
+	p = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);
+	if (!p) {
+		if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
+			pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pfn, NULL);
+			if (pgmap)
+				return memory_failure_dev_pagemap(pfn, flags,
+								  pgmap);
+		}
 		pr_err("Memory failure: %#lx: memory outside kernel control\n",
 			pfn);
 		return -ENXIO;
 	}
 
-	pgmap = get_dev_pagemap(pfn, NULL);
-	if (pgmap)
-		return memory_failure_dev_pagemap(pfn, flags, pgmap);
-
-	p = pfn_to_page(pfn);
 	if (PageHuge(p))
 		return memory_failure_hugetlb(pfn, flags);
 	if (TestSetPageHWPoison(p)) {


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