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Commit feee6b29 authored by David Hildenbrand's avatar David Hildenbrand Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/memory_hotplug: shrink zones when offlining memory

We currently try to shrink a single zone when removing memory.  We use
the zone of the first page of the memory we are removing.  If that
memmap was never initialized (e.g., memory was never onlined), we will
read garbage and can trigger kernel BUGs (due to a stale pointer):

    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 000000000000353d
    #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
    #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
    PGD 0 P4D 0
    Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI
    CPU: 1 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/u8:0 Not tainted 5.3.0-rc5-next-20190820+ #317
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.4
    Workqueue: kacpi_hotplug acpi_hotplug_work_fn
    RIP: 0010:clear_zone_contiguous+0x5/0x10
    Code: 48 89 c6 48 89 c3 e8 2a fe ff ff 48 85 c0 75 cf 5b 5d c3 c6 85 fd 05 00 00 01 5b 5d c3 0f 1f 840
    RSP: 0018:ffffad2400043c98 EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000200000000...
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