Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:13:56 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlbfs Fix bugs in hugetlb_vmtruncate_list |
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On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:35:37 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hillf Danton noticed bugs in the hugetlb_vmtruncate_list routine. > The argument end is of type pgoff_t. It was being converted to a > vaddr offset and passed to unmap_hugepage_range. However, end > was also being used as an argument to the vma_interval_tree_foreach > controlling loop. In addition, the conversion of end to vaddr offset > was incorrect.
Could we please have a description of the user-visible effects of the bug? It's always needed for -stable things. And for all bugfixes, really.
(stable@vger.kernel.org[4.3] isn't an email address btw - my client barfed)
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