Revert "mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late()."
authorAaron Thompson <dev@aaront.org>
Tue, 7 Feb 2023 08:21:51 +0000 (08:21 +0000)
committerMike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Tue, 7 Feb 2023 11:07:37 +0000 (13:07 +0200)
commit647037adcad00f2bab8828d3d41cd0553d41f3bd
treeec268261b3ec093b4bd75df43c83d8e1edc4e70e
parent4ec5183ec48656cec489c49f989c508b68b518e3
Revert "mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late()."

This reverts commit 115d9d77bb0f9152c60b6e8646369fa7f6167593.

The pages being freed by memblock_free_late() have already been
initialized, but if they are in the deferred init range,
__free_one_page() might access nearby uninitialized pages when trying to
coalesce buddies. This can, for example, trigger this BUG:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe964c02580c8
  RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x3f/0x70
   <TASK>
   __free_one_page+0x139/0x410
   __free_pages_ok+0x21d/0x450
   memblock_free_late+0x8c/0xb9
   efi_free_boot_services+0x16b/0x25c
   efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x403/0x446
   start_kernel+0x678/0x714
   secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xd2/0xdb
   </TASK>

A proper fix will be more involved so revert this change for the time
being.

Fixes: 115d9d77bb0f ("mm: Always release pages to the buddy allocator in memblock_free_late().")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Thompson <dev@aaront.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230207082151.1303-1-dev@aaront.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
mm/memblock.c
tools/testing/memblock/internal.h