Re: [mm 4.15-rc8] Random oopses under memory pressure.

[Dave Hansen]

On 01/17/2018 01:39 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> So maybe something like this to test the theory?
> 
>     diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
>     index 76c9688b6a0a..f919a5548943 100644
>     --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
>     +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
>     @@ -756,6 +756,8 @@ static inline void rmv_page_order(struct page *page)
>      static inline int page_is_buddy(struct page *page, struct page *buddy,
>                                                             unsigned int order)
>      {
>     +       if (WARN_ON_ONCE(page_zone(page) != page_zone(buddy)))
>     +               return 0;
>             if (page_is_guard(buddy) && page_order(buddy) == order) {
>                     if (page_zone_id(page) != page_zone_id(buddy))
>                             return 0;

I thought that page_zone_id() stuff was there to prevent this kind of
cross-zone stuff from happening.