# Re: \[PATCH net\] rhashtable: fix crash due to mm api change

- From: Florian Westphal \<fw@strlen.de\>
- Date: 2022-09-26 16:30:58 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2022/09/1946712
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2022/09/1945294/t.md

```text
Michal Hocko [ref] wrote:
> On Mon 26-09-22 10:31:39, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > Martin Zaharinov reports BUG() in mm land for 5.19.10 kernel:
> >  kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:2437!
> >  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> >  CPU: 28 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/28 Tainted: G        W  O      5.19.9 #1
> >  [..]
> >  RIP: 0010:__get_vm_area_node+0x120/0x130
> >   __vmalloc_node_range+0x96/0x1e0
> >   kvmalloc_node+0x92/0xb0
> >   bucket_table_alloc.isra.0+0x47/0x140
> >   rhashtable_try_insert+0x3a4/0x440
> >   rhashtable_insert_slow+0x1b/0x30
> >  [..]
> > 
> > bucket_table_alloc uses kvzalloc(GPF_ATOMIC).  If kmalloc fails, this now
> > falls through to vmalloc and hits code paths that assume GFP_KERNEL.
> > 
> > I sent a patch to restore GFP_ATOMIC support in kvmalloc but mm
> > maintainers rejected it.
> > 
> > This patch is partial revert of
> > commit 93f976b5190d ("lib/rhashtable: simplify bucket_table_alloc()"),
> > to avoid kvmalloc for ATOMIC case.
> > 
> > As kvmalloc doesn't warn when used with ATOMIC, kernel will only crash
> > once vmalloc fallback occurs, so we may see more crashes in other areas
> > in the future.
> > 
> > Most other callers seem ok but kvm_mmu_topup_memory_cache looks like it
> > might be affected by the same breakage, so Cc kvm@.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Martin Zaharinov <redacted>
> > Fixes: a421ef303008 ("mm: allow !GFP_KERNEL allocations for kvmalloc")
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Yy3MS2uhSgjF47dy@pc636/T/#t
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > Cc: <redacted>
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> 
> Please continue in the original email thread until we sort out the most
> reasonable solution for this.

I've submitted a v2 using Michals proposed fix for kvmalloc api, if
thats merged no fixes are required in the callers, so this rhashtable
patch can be discarded.
```