Re: [Question PATCH 0/1] mm: crash in vmalloc_to_page - misuse or bug?

[Igor Stoppa]

Ping?

The kernel test automation seems to confirm my findings:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=151999308428656&w=2

Is this really a bug?

On 22/02/18 16:13, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> While trying to change the code of find_vm_area, I got an automated
> notification that my code was breaking the testing of i386, based on the
> 0-day testing automation from 01.org
> 
> I started investigating the issue and noticed that it seems to be
> reproducible also on top of plain 4.16-rc2, without any of my patches.
> 
> I'm still not 100% sure that I'm doing something sane, but I thought it
> might be good to share the finding.
> 
> The patch contains both a minimal change, to trigger the crash, and a
> snippet of the log of the crash i get.
> 
> Igor Stoppa (1):
>   crash vmalloc_to_page()
> 
>  mm/vmalloc.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)


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igor