linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: check for pte NULL pointer in __page_check

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Date:	Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:07:07 +0800
From:	Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, qiuxishi <qiuxishi@...wei.com>,
	Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: check for pte NULL pointer in __page_check_address()

Hi Kirill,

On 2013/12/16 22:25, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> Jianguo Wu wrote:
>> In __page_check_address(), if address's pud is not present,
>> huge_pte_offset() will return NULL, we should check the return value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@...wei.com>
> 
> Looks okay to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Have you triggered a crash there? Or just spotted by reading the code?
> 


By reading the code.

Thanks,
Jianguo Wu

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