linux-kernel - Re: BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon

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Message-Id: <20110217.204036.226788819.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:40:36 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, mingo@...e.hu, mhocko@...e.cz,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, opurdila@...acom.com
Subject: Re: BUG: Bad page map in process udevd (anon_vma: (null)) in
 2.6.38-rc4

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:38:09 -0800

> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> The patch from Eric Dumazet (which adds a few more cases to my patch
>> and hopefully catches them all) almost certainly fixes this rather
>> nasty memory corruption.
> 
> Oh, but you weren't cc'd on that part of the thread, since the thread
> got started from Michal Hocko's similar trouble. So you may have never
> even noticed that patch, or my "improved LIST_DEBUG" patch in the same
> thread)

I looked at Eric's (and your) patch before I wrote my reply :-)
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