linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX] NULL pointer dereference in __vm_enough

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Date:	Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:55:32 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX] NULL pointer dereference in __vm_enough_memory()

WU Fengguang wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 01:48:31PM +0800, WU Fengguang wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 11:31:09PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
>>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:00:12 +0530 "Balbir Singh" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>>> Shouldn't we just not stop vm accounting for kernel threads?
>>>>>
>>>> Could be.  It'd help heaps if we knew which patch in -mm caused
>>>> this, but from a quick peek it seems to me that mainline should be
>>>> vulnerable as well.
>>> Thats a valid point. It would be interesting to see what the overcommit
>>> setting was, when the panic occurred.
>> FYI, I do have nondefault overcommit settings:
>>
>> vm.overcommit_memory = 2
>> vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio = 1 1
> 
> Yes, the bug disappears when changing to default overcommit_memory!
> 

Great! So the problem might have existed for some time, but we never
saw it due to default over commit values? Were you using these values
for over commit even before?

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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