Re: ce56a86e2a ("x86/mm: Limit mmap() of /dev/mem to valid physical addresses"): kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:79!

[Craig Bergstrom]

Sounds good.  Thanks for the context.

I'll keep this on my plate and I'll turn something around once I've
had a chance to test a bit, probably next week.

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Craig Bergstrom <craigb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Reverting seems like the right approach at the moment.  My apologies
>> for the breakage so late the in the cycle.
>
> Note that there's no need for you to apologize and you carry exactly zero amount
> of blame for the late-cycle breakage: it was my decision to send it to Linus so
> quickly, you never asked for it to be sent upstream on such a short notice.
>
> ( Classic "patch makes sense, looks good, other arches ar doing this too, and I
>   tested it myself too on multiple systems, so it must be obviously fine for
>   everyone" moment. )
>
> Your change still makes sense from a robustness POV, so please send it again with
> the suggested fixes - and I'll be more careful with the upstream merge this time.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Ingo