Re: [PATCH] trace: don't call page_to_pfn() if page is NULL

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 15:28 +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:04:47PM +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
> > When allocating memory fails, page is NULL. page_to_pfn() will
> > cause the kernel panicked if we don't use sparsemem vmemmap.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Nice catch.
> I think it's a candidate of stable.

Yeah, and it looks like it can go against all stable kernels as it was
introduced back in 2.6.32. I'll apply and start testing it.

Thanks,

-- Steve

> 
> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 


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