Re: Oops in swsusp

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

Hi,

On Monday, 11 of April 2005 18:01, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Monday, 11 of April 2005 01:17, Andreas Steinmetz wrote:
> > 
> >>Pavel,
> >>during testing of the encrypted swsusp_image on x86_64 I did get an Oops
> >>from time to time at memcpy+11 called from swsusp_save+1090 which turns
> >>out to be the memcpy in copy_data_pages() of swsusp.c.
> >>The Oops is caused by a NULL pointer (I don't remember if it was source
> >>or destination).
> > 
> > 
> > It's quite important, however.  If it's the destination, it's probably a bug in
> > swsusp.  Otherwise, the problem is more serious.  Could you, please,
> > add BUG_ON(!pbe->address) right before the memcpy() and retest?
> 
> Here's the result:
> 
> BUG_ON(!pbe->address) hits, so is seems to be a swsusp problem.
> 
> So I added a BUG_ON(!to_copy) as shown below (mangled for mailing):
> 
> if (saveable(zone, &zone_pfn)) {
>        struct page * page;
>        BUG_ON(!to_copy);
>        page = pfn_to_page(zone_pfn + zone->zone_start_pfn);
>        pbe->orig_address = (long) page_address(page);
>        /* copy_page is not usable for copying task structs. */
>        BUG_ON(!pbe->address);
>        memcpy((void *)pbe->address, (void *)pbe->orig_address,
>               PAGE_SIZE);
>        pbe++;
>        to_copy--;
> }
> 
> The BUG_ON(!to_copy) hits, too.

Oh, I see.  You have discovered a bug in the code that was replaced
in 2.6.12-rc1. :-)  Please use 2.6.12-rc2 or the latest -mm for
testing/development of swsusp.

Greets,
Rafael


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