From: Michal Clapinski Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:40:28 +0000 (+0200) Subject: kho: align kho_scratch to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=797fe91e50d6927f90f0c3b4444277c2c7c8b42b;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git kho: align kho_scratch to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages While booting with KHO, the following crash was observed: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ff19164fffff8328 RIP: 0010:__free_one_page+0x1a1/0x6b0 Call Trace: [] free_one_page+0xaf/0x240 [] deferred_free_pages+0xa8/0xd0 [] deferred_init_memmap_chunk+0x10f/0x1b0 [] padata_mt_helper+0x65/0xa0 [] process_scheduled_works+0x202/0x410 [] worker_thread+0x1f9/0x2d0 [] kthread+0x27d/0x2f0 [] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [] ret_from_fork+0x145/0x280 [] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 deferred_init_memmap_chunk() interleaves initialization of struct pages with freeing them. This works fine without KHO because free regions will never be buddy neighbors. However, with KHO, free memory will be split into (free && scratch) and (free && !scratch), that can be buddy neighbors. KHO scratch is aligned to CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_PAGES pages but buddy looks at the neighborhood of MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages. These values are configurable but CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_PAGES is always less or equal to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES. In the crashing configuration they were set as follows: CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_PAGES = 1 << 9 MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES = 1 << 10 So while freeing one chunk, buddy accessed uninitialized struct pages from another chunk, tried to merge the blocks and crashed. To fix this, let's just align KHO scratch to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages. Fixes: c6073743d0c7 ("kho: make preserved pages compatible with deferred struct page init") Signed-off-by: Michal Clapinski Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260717134028.2880508-1-mclapinski@google.com [rppt: massaged the changelog] Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) --- diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c index 4834a809985a..175c08a6e41e 100644 --- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c +++ b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c @@ -38,6 +38,16 @@ #include "../kexec_internal.h" #include "kexec_handover_internal.h" +/* + * This is the minimal alignment required by deferred struct page init. + * deferred_init_memmap_chunk frees memory to the buddy allocator, which looks + * at the neighboring pages (up to MAX_PAGE_ORDER) to merge them. + * If KHO scratch is not aligned to that value, buddy can access uninitialized + * struct pages, which can cause a crash. + */ +#define SCRATCH_ALIGNMENT_BYTES (PAGE_SIZE * MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES) +static_assert(SCRATCH_ALIGNMENT_BYTES >= CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES); + /* The magic token for preserved pages */ #define KHO_PAGE_MAGIC 0x4b484f50U /* ASCII for 'KHOP' */ @@ -640,8 +650,8 @@ static void __init scratch_size_update(void) * Scratch areas are released as MIGRATE_CMA. Round them up to the right * size. */ - scratch_size_lowmem = round_up(scratch_size_lowmem, CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES); - scratch_size_global = round_up(scratch_size_global, CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES); + scratch_size_lowmem = round_up(scratch_size_lowmem, SCRATCH_ALIGNMENT_BYTES); + scratch_size_global = round_up(scratch_size_global, SCRATCH_ALIGNMENT_BYTES); } static phys_addr_t __init scratch_size_node(int nid) @@ -656,7 +666,7 @@ static phys_addr_t __init scratch_size_node(int nid) size = scratch_size_pernode; } - return round_up(size, CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES); + return round_up(size, SCRATCH_ALIGNMENT_BYTES); } /** @@ -692,7 +702,7 @@ static void __init kho_reserve_scratch(void) * next kernel */ size = scratch_size_lowmem; - addr = memblock_phys_alloc_range(size, CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES, 0, + addr = memblock_phys_alloc_range(size, SCRATCH_ALIGNMENT_BYTES, 0, ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT); if (!addr) { pr_err("Failed to reserve lowmem scratch buffer\n"); @@ -705,7 +715,7 @@ static void __init kho_reserve_scratch(void) /* reserve large contiguous area for allocations without nid */ size = scratch_size_global; - addr = memblock_phys_alloc(size, CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES); + addr = memblock_phys_alloc(size, SCRATCH_ALIGNMENT_BYTES); if (!addr) { pr_err("Failed to reserve global scratch buffer\n"); goto err_free_scratch_areas; @@ -721,7 +731,7 @@ static void __init kho_reserve_scratch(void) */ for_each_node_state(nid, N_MEMORY) { size = scratch_size_node(nid); - addr = memblock_alloc_range_nid(size, CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES, + addr = memblock_alloc_range_nid(size, SCRATCH_ALIGNMENT_BYTES, 0, MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ACCESSIBLE, nid, true); if (!addr) {