From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Andrey Korolyov <andrey@xdel.ru>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com, jipan yang <jipan.yang@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: copy_huge_page: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 11:45:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <551A6CD7.3040901@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1503281705040.13543@eggly.anvils>
On 03/29/2015, 01:25 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> But you are very appositely mistaken: copy_huge_page() used to make
> the same mistake, and Dave Hansen fixed it back in v3.13, but the fix
> never went to the stable trees.
>
> Your report was on an Ubuntu "3.11.0-15" kernel: I think Ubuntu have
> discontinued their 3.11-stable kernel series, but 3.10-longterm and
> 3.12-longterm would benefit from including this fix. I haven't tried
> patching and building and testing it there, but it looks reasonable.
>
> Hugh
>
> commit 30b0a105d9f7141e4cbf72ae5511832457d89788
> Author: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Date: Thu Nov 21 14:31:58 2013 -0800
>
> mm: thp: give transparent hugepage code a separate copy_page
Applied to 3.12. Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-31 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-04 16:34 Andrey Korolyov
2015-02-04 16:42 ` Andrey Korolyov
2015-02-24 0:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2015-03-28 15:51 ` Andrey Korolyov
2015-03-29 0:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2015-03-31 9:45 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2015-03-31 10:01 ` Andrey Korolyov
2015-07-02 11:58 ` Andrey Korolyov
[not found] <CAAiL-puUPeHTCBOEA-JrSv52J3QRm68d=HYQ9J7R=aY95Sjn2w@mail.gmail.com>
2014-07-03 8:08 ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-03 8:14 ` jipan yang
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