linux-kernel - Re: oops in copy_page

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Date:	Sun, 6 Jan 2013 11:10:30 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Hillf Danton <dhillf@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: oops in copy_page_rep()

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 07:55:53PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:

 > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
 > > I have no idea what happened here, but this is the first time I've seen this one.
 > > This was running a tree pulled yesterday afternoon.
 > >
 > Would you please try the following patch?

I can, though it took a long time for me to hit this, so I can't guarantee
I'll be able to say with certainty whether it's working.
(perhaps there's a printk we could add for debugging to say "would have crashed here" ?)

(The fuzzer frequently walks into other bugs first, it's unusual that
it ran for the length of time it did when this happened)

	Dave

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