From: Christian Borntraeger We have seen an oops in an OOM situation, where show_mem tried to access the struct page of a dcss segment. The vmemmap code has already created the 1:1 mapping but failed allocating the struct pages. In the OOM case, show_mem now walks the memory. It uses pfn_valid to detect if it may access the struct page. In the case described above, the mapping was established and pfn_valid returned true. As the struct pages were not allocated, the kernel oopsed. We have to ensure that we have created the struct pages, before we add a mapping pointing to the pages. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- arch/s390/mm/vmem.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: quilt-2.6/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c =================================================================== --- quilt-2.6.orig/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c +++ quilt-2.6/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c @@ -236,10 +236,10 @@ static int vmem_add_mem(unsigned long st { int ret; - ret = vmem_add_range(start, size); + ret = vmem_add_mem_map(start, size); if (ret) return ret; - return vmem_add_mem_map(start, size); + return vmem_add_range(start, size); } /* -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/