From 97090500d776c3f6d08e857e3a0a7cf092999094 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Graf Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 03:12:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] mm/mm_init: deferred_grow_zone(): fix out-of-range first_deferred_pfn With CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT enabled, deferred_grow_zone() initializes struct pages early in boot to satisfy an allocation. With a large CMA reservation in place, the ranges deferred_init_memmap() finds may not add up to the allocation it was asked for, and the function ends up initializing the memory map of the entire zone and still falls short. That is fine in itself: the function accounts for it and leaves the caller to decide whether it now has enough memory. However, the update of pgdat->first_deferred_pfn that tracks where uninitialized memory map starts could overflow. If the node's RAM end is not aligned on PAGES_PER_SECTION boundaries and some deferred struct pages were initialized, pgdat->first_deferred_pfn would point past the end of the node's memory. deferred_init_memmap() later picks up from pgdat->first_deferred_pfn and hits a BUG_ON(), because it expects a pfn within its node. For example, when running a kernel with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y and CONFIG_CMA=y using the following qemu command line qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 8032M -kernel bzImage \ -append "nokaslr cma=4768M@0x100000000" the kernel panics: kernel BUG at mm/mm_init.c:2131! CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 36 Comm: pgdatinit0 Not tainted 7.2.0-rc6 #1 RIP: 0010:deferred_init_memmap+0x1b8/0x1c0 RAX: 0000000000236000 R13: 0000000000238000 Call Trace: kthread+0xdf/0x120 ret_from_fork+0x187/0x250 Make sure that the update of pgdta->first_deferred_pfn does not overflow when the entire zone's (and therefore node's) memory map is initialized. Fixes: 3acb913c9d5b ("mm/mm_init: use deferred_init_memmap_chunk() in deferred_grow_zone()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-5 Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260807031243.87904-1-graf@amazon.com [rppt: massaged the changelog] Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) --- mm/mm_init.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c index 1ba1181d8ef9..37a425a14595 100644 --- a/mm/mm_init.c +++ b/mm/mm_init.c @@ -2214,10 +2214,13 @@ bool __init deferred_grow_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned int order) } /* - * There were no pages to initialize and free which means the zone's - * memory map is completely initialized. + * The loop only tests spfn before entering an iteration, so on exit it + * may point up to a section past the end of the zone. When it does, + * the rest of the zone has already been handed to + * deferred_init_memmap_chunk() and nothing is left to initialize. */ - pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = nr_pages ? spfn : ULONG_MAX; + pgdat->first_deferred_pfn = + spfn < zone_end_pfn(zone) ? spfn : ULONG_MAX; pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);