From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
muchun.song@linux.dev, Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/sparse: fix preinited section_mem_map clobbering on failure path
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:37:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331113724.2080833-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com> (raw)
sparse_init_nid() is careful to leave alone every section whose vmemmap
has already been set up by sparse_vmemmap_init_nid_early(); it only
clears section_mem_map for the rest:
if (!preinited_vmemmap_section(ms))
ms->section_mem_map = 0;
A leftover line after that conditional block
ms->section_mem_map = 0;
was supposed to be deleted but was missed in the failure path, causing the
field to be overwritten for all sections when memory allocation fails,
effectively destroying the pre-initialization check.
Drop the stray assignment so that preinited sections retain their
already valid state.
Fixes: d65917c42373 ("mm/sparse: allow for alternate vmemmap section init at boot")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
---
mm/sparse.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index c2eb36bfb86d..3a14b733bf71 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -584,7 +584,6 @@ static void __init sparse_init_nid(int nid, unsigned long pnum_begin,
ms = __nr_to_section(pnum);
if (!preinited_vmemmap_section(ms))
ms->section_mem_map = 0;
- ms->section_mem_map = 0;
}
}
--
2.20.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-31 11:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-31 11:37 Muchun Song [this message]
2026-03-31 18:34 ` Donet Tom
2026-04-01 2:28 ` Muchun Song
2026-04-02 6:42 ` Donet Tom
2026-03-31 20:10 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-31 21:06 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-01 2:37 ` Muchun Song
2026-03-31 20:42 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-01 2:41 ` Muchun Song
2026-04-01 7:25 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-01 7:28 ` Muchun Song
2026-04-02 7:37 ` Donet Tom
2026-04-02 7:56 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-02 12:12 ` Donet Tom
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