linux-kernel - Re: mmstress[1309]: segfault at 7f3d71a36ee8 ip 00007f3d77132bdf sp 00007f3d71a36ee8 error 4 in libc-2.27.so[7f3d77058000+1aa000]

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=who8WmkWuuOJeGKa-7QCtZHqp3PsOSJY0hadyywucPMcQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:43:29 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: mmstress[1309]: segfault at 7f3d71a36ee8 ip 00007f3d77132bdf sp
 00007f3d71a36ee8 error 4 in libc-2.27.so[7f3d77058000+1aa000]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 1:55 PM Naresh Kamboju
<naresh.kamboju@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> The bad commit points to,
>
> commit d55564cfc222326e944893eff0c4118353e349ec
> x86: Make __put_user() generate an out-of-line call
>
> I have reverted this single patch and confirmed the reported
> problem is not seen anymore.

Thanks. Very funky, but thanks. I've been running that commit on my
machine for over half a year, and it still looks "trivially correct"
to me, but let me go look at it one more time. Can't argue with a
reliable bisect and revert..

            Linus