While doing memory hot-unplug operation on a PowerPC VM running 1024 CPUs
with 11TB of ram, I hit the following panic:

    BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000007
    Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000456048
    Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#2]
    LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS= 2048 NUMA pSeries
    Modules linked in: rpadlpar_io rpaphp
    CPU: 160 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Tainted: G      D           5.9.0 #1
    NIP:  c000000000456048 LR: c000000000455fd4 CTR: c00000000047b350
    REGS: c00006028d1b77a0 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G      D            (5.9.0)
    MSR:  8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 24004228  XER: 00000000
    CFAR: c00000000000f1b0 DAR: 0000000000000007 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0
    GPR00: c000000000455fd4 c00006028d1b7a30 c000000001bec800 0000000000000000
    GPR04: 0000000000000dc0 0000000000000000 00000000000374ef c00007c53df99320
    GPR08: 000007c53c980000 0000000000000000 000007c53c980000 0000000000000000
    GPR12: 0000000000004400 c00000001e8e4400 0000000000000000 0000000000000f6a
    GPR16: 0000000000000000 c000000001c25930 c000000001d62528 00000000000000c1
    GPR20: c000000001d62538 c00006be469e9000 0000000fffffffe0 c0000000003c0ff8
    GPR24: 0000000000000018 0000000000000000 0000000000000dc0 0000000000000000
    GPR28: c00007c513755700 c000000001c236a4 c00007bc4001f800 0000000000000001
    NIP [c000000000456048] __kmalloc_node+0x108/0x790
    LR [c000000000455fd4] __kmalloc_node+0x94/0x790
    Call Trace:
      kvmalloc_node+0x58/0x110
      mem_cgroup_css_online+0x10c/0x270
      online_css+0x48/0xd0
      cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x2c4/0x470
      cgroup_mkdir+0x408/0x5f0
      kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x90/0x100
      vfs_mkdir+0x138/0x250
      do_mkdirat+0x154/0x1c0
      system_call_exception+0xf8/0x200
      system_call_common+0xf0/0x27c
    Instruction dump:
    e93e0000 e90d0030 39290008 7cc9402a e94d0030 e93e0000 7ce95214 7f89502a
    2fbc0000 419e0018 41920230 e9270010 <89290007> 7f994800 419e0220 7ee6bb78

This pointing to the following code:

    mm/slub.c:2851
            if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node))) {
    c000000000456038:       00 00 bc 2f     cmpdi   cr7,r28,0
    c00000000045603c:       18 00 9e 41     beq     cr7,c000000000456054 <__kmalloc_node+0x114>
    node_match():
    mm/slub.c:2491
            if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE && page_to_nid(page) != node)
    c000000000456040:       30 02 92 41     beq     cr4,c000000000456270 <__kmalloc_node+0x330>
    page_to_nid():
    include/linux/mm.h:1294
    c000000000456044:       10 00 27 e9     ld      r9,16(r7)
    c000000000456048:       07 00 29 89     lbz     r9,7(r9)	<<<< r9 = NULL
    node_match():
    mm/slub.c:2491
    c00000000045604c:       00 48 99 7f     cmpw    cr7,r25,r9
    c000000000456050:       20 02 9e 41     beq     cr7,c000000000456270 <__kmalloc_node+0x330>

The panic occurred in slab_alloc_node() when checking for the page's node:

	object = c->freelist;
	page = c->page;
	if (unlikely(!object || !node_match(page, node))) {
		object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c);
		stat(s, ALLOC_SLOWPATH);

The issue is that object is not NULL while page is NULL which is odd but
may happen if the cache flush happened after loading object but before
loading page.  Thus checking for the page pointer is required too.

The cache flush is done through an inter processor interrupt when a
piece of memory is off-lined.  That interrupt is triggered when a memory
hot-unplug operation is initiated and offline_pages() is calling the
slub's MEM_GOING_OFFLINE callback slab_mem_going_offline_callback()
which is calling flush_cpu_slab().  If that interrupt is caught between
the reading of c->freelist and the reading of c->page, this could lead
to such a situation.  That situation is expected and the later call to
this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() will detect the change to c->freelist and redo
the whole operation.

In commit 6159d0f5 ("mm/slub.c: page is always non-NULL in
node_match()") check on the page pointer has been removed assuming that
page is always valid when it is called.  It happens that this is not
true in that particular case, so check for page before calling
node_match() here.

Fixes: 6159d0f5

 ("mm/slub.c: page is always non-NULL in node_match()")
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Scott Cheloha <cheloha@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201027190406.33283-1-ldufour@linux.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>