Re: [LKP] [mm/memory.c] 6558038e45: general_protection_fault:#[##]

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Oct 17 2018 - 18:26:25 EST


On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 09:36:00 +0800 kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-6):
>
> commit: 6558038e4540a22ee4f99a5def74791189102bc0 ("mm/memory.c: recheck page table entry with page table lock held")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
>
> in testcase: trinity
> with following parameters:
>
> runtime: 300s
>
> test-description: Trinity is a linux system call fuzz tester.
> test-url: http://codemonkey.org.uk/projects/trinity/
>
>
> on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu qemu64,+ssse3 -smp 4 -m 4G
>
> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):

mm-recheck-page-table-entry-with-page-table-lock-held-fix.patch ("mm:
fix the crash observed with syzkaller run") will most likely fix this.
Was it applied during this testing?