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percpu: fix bootmem error handling in pcpu_page_first_chunk()
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If memory allocation of in pcpu_embed_first_chunk() fails, the
allocated memory is not released correctly. In the release loop also
the non-allocated elements are released which leads to the following
kernel BUG on systems with very little memory:

[    0.000000] kernel BUG at mm/bootmem.c:307!
[    0.000000] illegal operation: 0001 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[    0.000000] Modules linked in:
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.10.0 #22
[    0.000000] task: 0000000000a20ae0 ti: 0000000000a08000 task.ti: 0000000000a08000
[    0.000000] Krnl PSW : 0400000180000000 0000000000abda7a (__free+0x116/0x154)
[    0.000000]            R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:0 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:0 PM:0 EA:3
...
[    0.000000]  [<0000000000abdce2>] mark_bootmem_node+0xde/0xf0
[    0.000000]  [<0000000000abdd9c>] mark_bootmem+0xa8/0x118
[    0.000000]  [<0000000000abcbba>] pcpu_embed_first_chunk+0xe7a/0xf0c
[    0.000000]  [<0000000000abcc96>] setup_per_cpu_areas+0x4a/0x28c

To fix the problem now only allocated elements are released. This then
leads to the correct kernel panic:

[    0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Failed to initialize percpu areas.
...
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000] ([<000000000011307e>] show_trace+0x132/0x150)
[    0.000000]  [<0000000000113160>] show_stack+0xc4/0xd4
[    0.000000]  [<00000000007127dc>] dump_stack+0x74/0xd8
[    0.000000]  [<00000000007123fe>] panic+0xea/0x264
[    0.000000]  [<0000000000b14814>] setup_per_cpu_areas+0x5c/0x28c

tj: Flipped if conditional so that it doesn't need "continue".

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
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Michael Holzheu authored and htejun committed Sep 23, 2013
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions mm/percpu.c
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Expand Up @@ -1706,8 +1706,9 @@ int __init pcpu_embed_first_chunk(size_t reserved_size, size_t dyn_size,

out_free_areas:
for (group = 0; group < ai->nr_groups; group++)
free_fn(areas[group],
ai->groups[group].nr_units * ai->unit_size);
if (areas[group])
free_fn(areas[group],
ai->groups[group].nr_units * ai->unit_size);
out_free:
pcpu_free_alloc_info(ai);
if (areas)
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