Re: slub freelist issue / BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000003ffe0018

[Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>]

On 2020-06-05 16:08, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 6/5/20 3:12 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:48 PM Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2020-06-05 11:36, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2020-06-05 11:11, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>>>> On 6/4/20 8:46 PM, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/4/20 7:57 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 07:20:18PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2020-06-04 19:18, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 6/4/20 7:14 PM, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I ran into a boot problem with latest linus/master
>>>>>>>>>> (6929f71e46bdddbf1c4d67c2728648176c67c555) that manifests like this:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi, what's the .config you use?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Pretty much x86_64 defconfig minus a few options (PCI, USB, ...)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Oh yes indeed. I immediately crash in the same way with this config.
>>>>>>> I'll
>>>>>>> start digging...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (defconfig finishes boot)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is funny, booting with slub_debug=F results in:
>>>>>> I'm not sure if it's ACPI or ftrace wrong here, but looks like the
>>>>>> changed
>>>>>> free pointer offset merely exposes a bug in something else.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, with Kees' patch reverted, booting with slub_debug=F (or even more
>>>>> specific slub_debug=F,ftrace_event_field) also hits this bug below. I
>>>>> wanted to bisect it, but v5.7 was also bad, and also v5.6. Didn't try
>>>>> further in history. So it's not new at all, and likely very specific to
>>>>> your config+QEMU? (and related to the ACPI error messages that precede
>>>>> it?).
>>>>
>>>> I see it too, but not on v5.0. I can bisect it.
>>>
>>> commit 67a72420a326b45514deb3f212085fb2cd1595b5
>>> Author: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
>>> Date:   Fri Aug 16 14:43:21 2019 -0700
>>>
>>>       ACPICA: Increase total number of possible Owner IDs
>>>
>>>       ACPICA commit 1f1652dad88b9d767767bc1f7eb4f7d99e6b5324
>>>
>>>       From 255 to 4095 possible IDs.
>>>
>>>       Link: https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/1f1652da
>>>       Reported-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi.berriche @hpe.com>
>>>       Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com>
>>>       Signed-off-by: Erik Schmauss <erik.schmauss@intel.com>
>>>       Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
>>
>> Bob, Erik, did we miss something in that patch?
> 
> Maybe the patch just changes layout in a way that exposes the bug.
> 
> Anyway the "ftrace_event_field" cache is not really involved, this is just
> because of slab merging. After adding "slub_nomerge" to "slub_debug=F", it
> starts making more sense, as the cache becomes Acpi-Namespace
> 
> [    0.140408] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    0.140837] cache_from_obj: Wrong slab cache. Acpi-Namespace but object is from kmalloc-64
> [    0.141406] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/slab.h:524 kmem_cache_free+0x1d3/0x250
> [    0.142105] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.7.0+ #45
> [    0.142393] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
> [    0.142393] RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_free+0x1d3/0x250
> [    0.142393] Code: 18 4d 85 ed 0f 84 10 ff ff ff 4c 39 ed 74 2f 49 8b 4d 58 48 8b 55 58 48 c7 c6 10 47 a1 ac 48 c7 c7 00 c2 b0 ac e8 b1 cc eb ff <0f> 0b 48 89 de 4c 89 ef e8 10 d7 ff ff 48 8b 15 59 36 9b 00 4c 89
> [    0.142393] RSP: 0018:ffffb39cc0013dc0 EFLAGS: 00010282
> [    0.142393] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff937287409e00 RCX: 0000000000000000
> [    0.142393] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000092 RDI: ffffffffacfdd32c
> [    0.142393] RBP: ffff93728742ef00 R08: ffffb39cc0013c7d R09: 00000000000000fc
> [    0.142393] R10: ffffb39cc0013c78 R11: ffffb39cc0013c7d R12: ffff937307409e00
> [    0.142393] R13: ffff937287401d00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
> [    0.142393] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff937287a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [    0.142393] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [    0.142393] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000003a0a000 CR4: 00000000003406f0
> [    0.142393] Call Trace:
> [    0.142393]  acpi_os_release_object+0x5/0x10
> [    0.142393]  acpi_ns_delete_children+0x46/0x59
> [    0.142393]  acpi_ns_delete_namespace_subtree+0x5c/0x79
> [    0.142393]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x1f/0x1f
> [    0.142393]  acpi_ns_terminate+0xc/0x31
> [    0.142393]  acpi_ut_subsystem_shutdown+0x45/0xa3
> [    0.142393]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x1f/0x1f
> [    0.142393]  acpi_terminate+0x5/0xf
> [    0.142393]  acpi_init+0x27b/0x308
> [    0.142393]  ? video_setup+0x79/0x79
> [    0.142393]  do_one_initcall+0x7b/0x160
> [    0.142393]  kernel_init_freeable+0x190/0x1f2
> [    0.142393]  ? rest_init+0x9a/0x9a
> [    0.142393]  kernel_init+0x5/0xf6
> [    0.142393]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
> [    0.142393] ---[ end trace 3539f236ef812ba1 ]---
> [    0.142396] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> 
> I've also changed the warning so it's not printed just once, and also prints tracking info
> (see the hunk at the end of my mail, I'll turn this to a proper patch later).
> 
> With "slub_debug=FU slub_nomerge" there are now multiple warnings, but they all look the same:
> 
> [    0.143815] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    0.144131] cache_from_obj: Wrong slab cache. Acpi-Namespace but object is from kmalloc-64
> [    0.144929] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/slab.h:524 kmem_cache_free+0x1d3/0x250
> [    0.145129] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.7.0+ #45
> [    0.145129] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
> [    0.145129] RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_free+0x1d3/0x250
> [    0.145129] Code: 18 4d 85 ed 0f 84 10 ff ff ff 4c 39 ed 74 2f 49 8b 4d 58 48 8b 55 58 48 c7 c6 10 47 c1 8d 48 c7 c7 00 c2 d0 8d e8 b1 cc eb ff <0f> 0b 48 89 de 4c 89 ef e8 10 d7 ff ff 48 8b 15 59 36 9b 00 4c 89
> [    0.145129] RSP: 0018:ffff990b80013dc0 EFLAGS: 00010282
> [    0.145129] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff972d474ada80 RCX: 0000000000000000
> [    0.145129] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000092 RDI: ffffffff8e1dd32c
> [    0.145129] RBP: ffff972d47425680 R08: ffff990b80013c7d R09: 00000000000000fc
> [    0.145129] R10: ffff990b80013c78 R11: ffff990b80013c7d R12: ffff972dc74ada80
> [    0.145129] R13: ffff972d474038c0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
> [    0.145129] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff972d47a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [    0.145129] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [    0.145129] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000000660a000 CR4: 00000000003406f0
> [    0.145129] Call Trace:
> [    0.145129]  acpi_os_release_object+0x5/0x10
> [    0.145129]  acpi_ns_delete_children+0x46/0x59
> [    0.145129]  acpi_ns_delete_namespace_subtree+0x5c/0x79
> [    0.145129]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x1f/0x1f
> [    0.145129]  acpi_ns_terminate+0xc/0x31
> [    0.145129]  acpi_ut_subsystem_shutdown+0x45/0xa3
> [    0.145129]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x1f/0x1f
> [    0.145129]  acpi_terminate+0x5/0xf
> [    0.145129]  acpi_init+0x27b/0x308
> [    0.145129]  ? video_setup+0x79/0x79
> [    0.145129]  do_one_initcall+0x7b/0x160
> [    0.145129]  kernel_init_freeable+0x190/0x1f2
> [    0.145129]  ? rest_init+0x9a/0x9a
> [    0.145129]  kernel_init+0x5/0xf6
> [    0.145129]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
> [    0.145129] ---[ end trace 574554fca7bd06bb ]---
> [    0.145133] INFO: Allocated in acpi_ns_root_initialize+0xb6/0x2d1 age=58 cpu=0 pid=0
> [    0.145881]  kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1a9/0x1c0
> [    0.146132]  acpi_ns_root_initialize+0xb6/0x2d1
> [    0.146578]  acpi_initialize_subsystem+0x65/0xa8
> [    0.147024]  acpi_early_init+0x5d/0xd1
> [    0.147132]  start_kernel+0x45b/0x518
> [    0.147491]  secondary_startup_64+0xb6/0xc0
> [    0.147897] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> 
> And it seems ACPI is allocating an object via kmalloc() and then freeing it
> via kmem_cache_free(<"Acpi-Namespace" kmem_cache>) which is wrong.
> 
>> ./scripts/faddr2line vmlinux 'acpi_ns_root_initialize+0xb6'
> acpi_ns_root_initialize+0xb6/0x2d1:
> kmalloc at include/linux/slab.h:555
> (inlined by) kzalloc at include/linux/slab.h:669
> (inlined by) acpi_os_allocate_zeroed at include/acpi/platform/aclinuxex.h:57
> (inlined by) acpi_ns_root_initialize at drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c:102
> 

That's it :-) This fixes it for me:

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c
index 2566e2d4c7803..b76bbab917941 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/nsaccess.c
@@ -98,14 +98,12 @@ acpi_status acpi_ns_root_initialize(void)
                  * predefined names are at the root level. It is much 
easier to
                  * just create and link the new node(s) here.
                  */
-               new_node =
-                   ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED(sizeof(struct 
acpi_namespace_node));
+               new_node = acpi_ns_create_node(*ACPI_CAST_PTR (u32, 
init_val->name));
                 if (!new_node) {
                         status = AE_NO_MEMORY;
                         goto unlock_and_exit;
                 }

-               ACPI_COPY_NAMESEG(new_node->name.ascii, init_val->name);
                 new_node->descriptor_type = ACPI_DESC_TYPE_NAMED;
                 new_node->type = init_val->type;


Vegard