linux-kernel - Re: 3.15-rc8 oops in copy_page

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Date:	Fri, 6 Jun 2014 13:51:25 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 3.15-rc8 oops in copy_page_rep after page fault.

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 01:43:17PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > Not much to go on here. It rebooted right after dumping this.
 > 
 > RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8b3287b5>]  [<ffffffff8b3287b5>] copy_page_rep+0x5/0x10
 > Call Trace:
 >  [<ffffffff8b1be8db>] ? do_huge_pmd_wp_page+0x5cb/0x850
 >  [<ffffffff8b187010>] handle_mm_fault+0x1e0/0xc50
 >  [<ffffffff8b1b4662>] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1c2/0x200
 >  [<ffffffff8b7472d9>] __do_page_fault+0x1c9/0x630
 >  [<ffffffff8b010a98>] ? perf_trace_sys_enter+0x38/0x180
 >  [<ffffffff8b11897b>] ? __acct_update_integrals+0x8b/0x120
 >  [<ffffffff8b747bfb>] ? preempt_count_sub+0xab/0x100
 >  [<ffffffff8b74775e>] do_page_fault+0x1e/0x70
 >  [<ffffffff8b7441b2>] page_fault+0x22/0x30

Ok, I can reproduce this fairly easily.

The only prerequisite seems to be that before I start the fuzzer I do..

echo 65536 > /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr

If I don't do that, then it seems to survive, so maybe that's a clue ?

	Dave

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