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Message-ID: <1445990693.20657.98.camel@hpe.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:04:53 -0600
From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@....com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Stas Sergeev <stsp@...t.ru>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Stas Sergeev <stsp@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] x86: sigcontext fixes, again
On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 07:37 +0900, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Stas Sergeev <stsp@...t.ru> wrote:
> >
> > I can't easily post an Oops: under X it doesn't even appear -
> > machine freezes immediately, and under non-KMS console it is
> > possible to get one, but difficult to screen-shot (using bare
> > metal, not VM). Also the Oops was seemingly unrelated.
> > And if you run "dosemu -s" under non-KMS console, you'll also
> > reproduce this one:
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97321
>
> Hmm. Andrew Morton responded to that initially, but then nothing
> happened, and now it's been another six months. Andrew?
>
> The arch/x86/mm/pat.c error handling does seem to be suspect. This is
> all code several years old, so none of this is new, and I think Suresh
> is gone. Adding a few other people with recent sign-offs to that
> file, in the hope that somebody feels like they own it..
In the case of PFNMAP, the range should always be mapped. So, I wonder why
follow_phys() failed with the !pte_present() check.
Stas, do you have a test program that can reproduce 97321?
-Toshi
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