commit f2f29da9f0d4367f6ff35e0d9d021257bb53e273 upstream.
While debugging kexec/hibernation hangs and crashes, it turned out that
the current implementation of e820__register_nosave_regions() suffers from
multiple serious issues:
- The end of last region is tracked by PFN, causing it to find holes
that aren't there if two consecutive subpage regions are present
- The nosave PFN ranges derived from holes are rounded out (instead of
rounded in) which makes it inconsistent with how explicitly reserved
regions are handled
Fix this by:
- Treating reserved regions as if they were holes, to ensure consistent
handling (rounding out nosave PFN ranges is more correct as the
kernel does not use partial pages)
- Tracking the end of the last RAM region by address instead of pages
to detect holes more precisely
These bugs appear to have been introduced about ~18 years ago with the very
first version of e820_mark_nosave_regions(), and its flawed assumptions were
carried forward uninterrupted through various waves of rewrites and renames.
[ mingo: Added Git archeology details, for kicks and giggles. ]
Fixes: e8eff5ac29 ("[PATCH] Make swsusp avoid memory holes and reserved memory regions on x86_64")
Reported-by: Roberto Ricci <io@r-ricci.it>
Tested-by: Roberto Ricci <io@r-ricci.it>
Signed-off-by: Myrrh Periwinkle <myrrhperiwinkle@qtmlabs.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250406-fix-e820-nosave-v3-1-f3787bc1ee1d@qtmlabs.xyz
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z4WFjBVHpndct7br@desktop0a/
Signed-off-by: Myrrh Periwinkle <myrrhperiwinkle@qtmlabs.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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