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The routine cma_init_reserved_areas is designed to activate all
reserved cma areas. It quits when it first encounters an error.
This can leave some areas in a state where they are reserved but
not activated. There is no feedback to code which performed the
reservation. Attempting to allocate memory from areas in such a
state will result in a BUG.
Modify cma_init_reserved_areas to always attempt to activate all
areas. The called routine, cma_activate_area is responsible for
leaving the area in a valid state. No one is making active use
of returned error codes, so change the routine to void.
How to reproduce: This example uses kernelcore, hugetlb and cma
as an easy way to reproduce. However, this is a more general cma
issue.
Two node x86 VM 16GB total, 8GB per node
Kernel command line parameters, kernelcore=4G hugetlb_cma=8G
Related boot time messages,
hugetlb_cma: reserve 8192 MiB, up to 4096 MiB per node
cma: Reserved 4096 MiB at 0x0000000100000000
hugetlb_cma: reserved 4096 MiB on node 0
cma: Reserved 4096 MiB at 0x0000000300000000
hugetlb_cma: reserved 4096 MiB on node 1
cma: CMA area hugetlb could not be activated
# echo 8 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
...
Call Trace:
bitmap_find_next_zero_area_off+0x51/0x90
cma_alloc+0x1a5/0x310
alloc_fresh_huge_page+0x78/0x1a0
alloc_pool_huge_page+0x6f/0xf0
set_max_huge_pages+0x10c/0x250
nr_hugepages_store_common+0x92/0x120
? __kmalloc+0x171/0x270
kernfs_fop_write+0xc1/0x1a0
vfs_write+0xc7/0x1f0
ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x4d/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
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