linux-kernel - Re: Possible broken MM code in dell-laptop.c?

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2015 09:43:09 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
	Stuart Hayes <stuart_hayes@...l.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible broken MM code in dell-laptop.c?

On Tue 16-06-15 09:15:23, Pali Rohár wrote:
[...]
> Michal, thank you for explaining this situation!
> 
> Darren, I will prepare patch which will fix code and use __free_page().
> 
> (Btw, execution on fail_rfkill label caused kernel panic)

I am sorry, I could have made it more clear in the very first email.
A panic is to be expected because free_page will translate the given
address to a struct page* but this is what the code gave it. So an
unrelated struct page would be freed (or maybe an invalid one).

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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