Crash memory ranges is an array of memory ranges of the crashing kernel
to be exported as a dump via /proc/vmcore file. The size of the array
is set based on INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS, which works alright in most cases
where memblock memory regions count is less than INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS
value. But this count can grow beyond INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value since
commit 142b45a72e ("memblock: Add array resizing support").
On large memory systems with a few DLPAR operations, the memblock memory
regions count could be larger than INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS value. On such
systems, registering fadump results in crash or other system failures
like below:
task: c00007f39a290010 ti: c00000000b738000 task.ti: c00000000b738000
NIP: c000000000047df4 LR: c0000000000f9e58 CTR: c00000000010f180
REGS: c00000000b73b570 TRAP: 0300 Tainted: G L X (4.4.140+)
MSR: 8000000000009033 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 22004484 XER: 20000000
CFAR: c000000000008500 DAR: 000007a450000000 DSISR: 40000000 SOFTE: 0
...
NIP [c000000000047df4] smp_send_reschedule+0x24/0x80
LR [c0000000000f9e58] resched_curr+0x138/0x160
Call Trace:
resched_curr+0x138/0x160 (unreliable)
check_preempt_curr+0xc8/0xf0
ttwu_do_wakeup+0x38/0x150
try_to_wake_up+0x224/0x4d0
__wake_up_common+0x94/0x100
ep_poll_callback+0xac/0x1c0
__wake_up_common+0x94/0x100
__wake_up_sync_key+0x70/0xa0
sock_def_readable+0x58/0xa0
unix_stream_sendmsg+0x2dc/0x4c0
sock_sendmsg+0x68/0xa0
___sys_sendmsg+0x2cc/0x2e0
__sys_sendmsg+0x5c/0xc0
SyS_socketcall+0x36c/0x3f0
system_call+0x3c/0x100
as array index overflow is not checked for while setting up crash memory
ranges causing memory corruption. To resolve this issue, dynamically
allocate memory for crash memory ranges and resize it incrementally,
in units of pagesize, on hitting array size limit.
Fixes: 2df173d9e8 ("fadump: Initialize elfcore header and add PT_LOAD program headers.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.4+
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Just use PAGE_SIZE directly, fixup variable placement]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
1bd6a1c4b8