Commit 42b64281 authored Apr 27, 2012 by Tejun Heo

percpu: pcpu_embed_first_chunk() should free unused parts after all allocs are complete



pcpu_embed_first_chunk() allocates memory for each node, copies percpu
data and frees unused portions of it before proceeding to the next
group.  This assumes that allocations for different nodes doesn't
overlap; however, depending on memory topology, the bootmem allocator
may end up allocating memory from a different node than the requested
one which may overlap with the portion freed from one of the previous
percpu areas.  This leads to percpu groups for different nodes
overlapping which is a serious bug.

This patch separates out copy & partial free from the allocation loop
such that all allocations are complete before partial frees happen.

This also fixes overlapping frees which could happen on allocation
failure path - out_free_areas path frees whole groups but the groups
could have portions freed at that point.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: "Pavel V. Panteleev" <pp_84@mail.ru>
Tested-by: "Pavel V. Panteleev" <pp_84@mail.ru>
LKML-Reference: <E1SNhwY-0007ui-V7.pp_84-mail-ru@f220.mail.ru>

parent 789505b0

mm/percpu.c

+10 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1650,6 +1650,16 @@ int __init pcpu_embed_first_chunk(size_t reserved_size, size_t dyn_size,
		areas[group] = ptr;

		base = min(ptr, base);
		}

		/*
		* Copy data and free unused parts. This should happen after all
		* allocations are complete; otherwise, we may end up with
		* overlapping groups.
		*/
		for (group = 0; group < ai->nr_groups; group++) {
		struct pcpu_group_info *gi = &ai->groups[group];
		void *ptr = areas[group];

		for (i = 0; i < gi->nr_units; i++, ptr += ai->unit_size) {
		if (gi->cpu_map[i] == NR_CPUS) {

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