linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Mar 19 (uml)

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Date:	Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:44:51 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Mar 19 (uml)

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:14:48PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Looks like this commit introduced the issue:
> 
> commit 1ed71e0439cba3609d3c69bf04795e0389cd35e4
> Author: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Date:   Thu Feb 23 01:33:19 2012 -0500
> 
>     um: embed ->stub_pages[] into mmu_context
> 
>     seriously, kmalloc() for two-element array of pointers?
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> 
> The size of struct page is not known to all users of asm/mmu.h

Aaargh...  Dumb braino, fixed in the local queue back in Feb 25, fix
not folded into commit and missed on cherry-pick ;-/

It's
        struct page *stub_pages[2];
of course...

OK, fix properly folded into that sucker, for-next repushed.
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