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SubjectRe: [PATCH] do_wp_page: BUG on invalid pfn
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Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:15:45PM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:
>> 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();
>
> You're not unmapping the pte I guess to not interfere with the dump_stack,

This patch changes the logic from "pretend it's out of memory" to
"announce something's very wrong and bail out right away." Unmapping
the pte seems like a precursor to carrying on business as usual, but
there must be some subtleties here that I am unaware of, or Rusty
Russell wouldn't have called this patch non-trivial.

> but what about the printk? Will that affect the dump_stack also?

It seems like you'd return from the printk before dumping the stack,
so I wouldn't think so.

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