fs/proc/page.c: don't access uninitialized memmaps in fs/proc/page.c
commit aad5f69b upstream. There are three places where we access uninitialized memmaps, namely: - /proc/kpagecount - /proc/kpageflags - /proc/kpagecgroup We have initialized memmaps either when the section is online or when the page was initialized to the ZONE_DEVICE. Uninitialized memmaps contain garbage and in the worst case trigger kernel BUGs, especially with CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING. For example, not onlining a DIMM during boot and calling /proc/kpagecount with CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING: :/# cat /proc/kpagecount > tmp.test BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffffe #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 114616067 P4D 114616067 PUD 114618067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 0 PID: 469 Comm: cat Not tainted 5.4.0-rc1-next-20191004+ #11 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58...
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