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Vlastimil Babka fd6db58867 slab: fix barn NULL pointer dereference on memoryless nodes 
Phil reported a boot failure once sheaves become used in commits
59faa4da7c ("maple_tree: use percpu sheaves for maple_node_cache") and
3accabda4d ("mm, vma: use percpu sheaves for vm_area_struct cache"):

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000040
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 21 UID: 0 PID: 818 Comm: kworker/u398:0 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc3.slab+ #5 PREEMPT(voluntary)
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7425/02MJ3T, BIOS 1.26.0 07/30/2025
 RIP: 0010:__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x44/0x1d0
 Code: ec 08 48 8b 46 10 48 8b 76 08 48 85 c0 74 0b 8b 48 18 85 c9 0f 85 e5 00 00 00 65 48 63 05 e4 ee 50 02 49 8b 84 c6 e0 00 00 00 <4c> 8b 68 40 4c 89 ef e8 b0 81 ff ff 48 89 c5 48 85 c0 74 1d 48 89
 RSP: 0018:ffffd2d10950bdb0 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8a775dab74b0 RCX: 00000000ffffffff
 RDX: 0000000000000cc0 RSI: ffff8a6800804000 RDI: ffff8a680004e300
 RBP: ffffd2d10950be40 R08: 0000000000000060 R09: ffffffffb9367388
 R10: 00000000000149e8 R11: ffff8a6f87a38000 R12: 0000000000000cc0
 R13: 0000000000000cc0 R14: ffff8a680004e300 R15: 00000000000000c0
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8a77a3541000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 0000000e1aa24000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
  ? vm_area_alloc+0x1e/0x60
  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x4ec/0x5b0
  vm_area_alloc+0x1e/0x60
  create_init_stack_vma+0x26/0x210
  alloc_bprm+0x139/0x200
  kernel_execve+0x4a/0x140
  call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0xd0/0x190
  ? __pfx_call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork+0xf0/0x110
  ? __pfx_call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
  </TASK>
 Modules linked in:
 CR2: 0000000000000040
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
 RIP: 0010:__pcs_replace_empty_main+0x44/0x1d0
 Code: ec 08 48 8b 46 10 48 8b 76 08 48 85 c0 74 0b 8b 48 18 85 c9 0f 85 e5 00 00 00 65 48 63 05 e4 ee 50 02 49 8b 84 c6 e0 00 00 00 <4c> 8b 68 40 4c 89 ef e8 b0 81 ff ff 48 89 c5 48 85 c0 74 1d 48 89
 RSP: 0018:ffffd2d10950bdb0 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8a775dab74b0 RCX: 00000000ffffffff
 RDX: 0000000000000cc0 RSI: ffff8a6800804000 RDI: ffff8a680004e300
 RBP: ffffd2d10950be40 R08: 0000000000000060 R09: ffffffffb9367388
 R10: 00000000000149e8 R11: ffff8a6f87a38000 R12: 0000000000000cc0
 R13: 0000000000000cc0 R14: ffff8a680004e300 R15: 00000000000000c0
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8a77a3541000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 0000000e1aa24000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
 Kernel Offset: 0x36a00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
 ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---

And noted "this is an AMD EPYC 7401 with 8 NUMA nodes configured such
that memory is only on 2 of them."

 # numactl --hardware
 available: 8 nodes (0-7)
 node 0 cpus: 0 8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 72 80 88
 node 0 size: 0 MB
 node 0 free: 0 MB
 node 1 cpus: 2 10 18 26 34 42 50 58 66 74 82 90
 node 1 size: 31584 MB
 node 1 free: 30397 MB
 node 2 cpus: 4 12 20 28 36 44 52 60 68 76 84 92
 node 2 size: 0 MB
 node 2 free: 0 MB
 node 3 cpus: 6 14 22 30 38 46 54 62 70 78 86 94
 node 3 size: 0 MB
 node 3 free: 0 MB
 node 4 cpus: 1 9 17 25 33 41 49 57 65 73 81 89
 node 4 size: 0 MB
 node 4 free: 0 MB
 node 5 cpus: 3 11 19 27 35 43 51 59 67 75 83 91
 node 5 size: 32214 MB
 node 5 free: 31625 MB
 node 6 cpus: 5 13 21 29 37 45 53 61 69 77 85 93
 node 6 size: 0 MB
 node 6 free: 0 MB
 node 7 cpus: 7 15 23 31 39 47 55 63 71 79 87 95
 node 7 size: 0 MB
 node 7 free: 0 MB

Linus decoded the stacktrace to get_barn() and get_node() and determined
that kmem_cache->node[numa_mem_id()] is NULL.

The problem is due to a wrong assumption that memoryless nodes only
exist on systems with CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES, where numa_mem_id()
points to the nearest node that has memory. SLUB has been allocating its
kmem_cache_node structures only on nodes with memory and so it does with
struct node_barn.

For kmem_cache_node, get_partial_node() checks if get_node() result is
not NULL, which I assumed was for protection from a bogus node id passed
to kmalloc_node() but apparently it's also for systems where
numa_mem_id() (used when no specific node is given) might return a
memoryless node.

Fix the sheaves code the same way by checking the result of get_node()
and bailing out if it's NULL. Note that cpus on such memoryless nodes
will have degraded sheaves performance, which can be improved later,
preferably by making numa_mem_id() work properly on such systems.

Fixes: 2d517aa09b ("slab: add opt-in caching layer of percpu sheaves")
Reported-and-tested-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251010151116.GA436967@pauld.westford.csb/
Analyzed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwg1xK%2BBr%3DFJ5QipVhzCvq7uQVPt5Prze6HDhQQ%3DQD_BcQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
 		2025-10-11 10:47:57 +02:00
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README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.