Re: [PATCH] lib/test_meminit: fix off-by-one error in test_pages()

[Alexander Potapenko]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:17 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In commit efb78fa86e95 ("lib/test_meminit: allocate pages up to order
> MAX_ORDER"), the loop for testing pages is set to "<= MAX_ORDER" which
> causes crashes in systems when run.  Fix this to "< MAX_ORDER" to fix
> the test to work properly.

What are the crashes you are seeing? Are those OOMs?
IIUC it should be valid to allocate with MAX_ORDER.