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Subject[PATCH] do_wp_page: BUG on invalid pfn
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Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:

> In message <87d6fixvpm.fsf@uga.edu> you write:
>> This patch just does what the comment says should be done.
>
> Hi Ed!
>
> Not trivial I'm afraid. Send to Linus and lkml.


This patch just does what the comment says should be done. I thought
it was a trivial patch, but Rusty Russell has informed me otherwise.
(Thanks, RR).


--- linux-2.6.0-test2/mm/memory.c.orig Sun Jul 27 13:01:24 2003
+++ linux-2.6.0-test2/mm/memory.c Wed Aug 6 18:30:55 2003
@@ -990,15 +990,10 @@
int ret;

if (unlikely(!pfn_valid(pfn))) {
- /*
- * This should really halt the system so it can be debugged or
- * at least the kernel stops what it's doing before it corrupts
- * data, but for the moment just pretend this is OOM.
- */
- pte_unmap(page_table);
printk(KERN_ERR "do_wp_page: bogus page at address %08lx\n",
address);
- goto oom;
+ dump_stack();
+ BUG();
}
old_page = pfn_to_page(pfn);

@@ -1054,7 +1049,6 @@

no_mem:
page_cache_release(old_page);
-oom:
ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
out:
spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
--
--Ed L Cashin | PGP public key:
ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/
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