linux-mm.kvack.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in 2.6.38-rc4
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:51:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikgTsktn3DBEweQd1bH=NKoSsXwNai92F_zM_H1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=xnbcs5BKj3cNE_aLtBO7W5m+2uaUacu7M8g_S@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> That said, neither 0x1e68 nor 0xe68 seems to be in the main vmlinux
> file. But I haven't checked modules yet.

There's no obvious clues in modules either. Sad. I was really hoping
for some "oh, there's a list_head at offset 0x1e68 of structure 'xyz',
that's obviously it".

So maybe it really is something like a pointer to some on-stack data,
and the 0x1e68 offset is just a random offset off the beginning of the
stack (it's in the right range). The stack is still one of the few
obvious 8kB allocations we have...

CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC really should catch it in that case, though.

                            Linus

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-16 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-16 18:52 Michal Hocko
2011-02-16 19:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-16 19:50   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-16 20:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-16 20:51       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2011-02-17  9:09       ` Michal Hocko
2011-02-17 16:13         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-17 16:26           ` Michal Hocko
2011-02-17 16:35           ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-17 18:57             ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-17 19:11               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-17 19:31                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18  3:16                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18  4:30                   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-18  4:36                     ` David Miller
2011-02-18  6:25                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18  7:29                         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18  8:54                           ` [PATCH 1/2] net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18 20:14                             ` David Miller
2011-02-18  4:38                     ` BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in 2.6.38-rc4 Linus Torvalds
2011-02-18  4:40                       ` David Miller
2011-02-18  4:57                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-18  8:29                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18  5:20                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18  8:41                       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18  8:59                       ` [PATCH 2/2] net: deinit automatic LIST_HEAD Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18 20:14                         ` David Miller
2011-02-18 12:29                 ` BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in 2.6.38-rc4 Michal Hocko
2011-02-18 16:26                   ` Michal Hocko
2011-02-18 16:39                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-18 18:08                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18 18:48                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-18 19:01                           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-02-18 19:11                             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2011-02-18 20:38                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-19  8:35                                 ` [PATCH] tcp: fix inet_twsk_deschedule() Eric Dumazet
2011-02-20  2:59                                   ` David Miller
2011-02-18 19:13                             ` BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in 2.6.38-rc4 Eric Dumazet
2011-02-18 19:56                       ` David Miller
2011-02-19  6:22                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-19 15:33                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-20  2:01                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-20  6:15                             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-20  8:27                               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-20 19:53                               ` David Miller
2011-02-20 21:34                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-02-18  8:54             ` Michal Hocko
2011-02-20 12:43             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-02-17 16:36           ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-17 17:07             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-17 19:36               ` Eric Dumazet
2011-02-17 20:18               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-02-16 20:13     ` Ingo Molnar

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='AANLkTikgTsktn3DBEweQd1bH=NKoSsXwNai92F_zM_H1@mail.gmail.com' \
    --to=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=mhocko@suse.cz \
    --cc=mingo@elte.hu \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox