linux-kernel - Re: exec error: BUG: Bad rss-counter

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Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:11:23 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@...yeetech.com>
Cc:     Ilya Lipnitskiy <ilya.lipnitskiy@...il.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: exec error: BUG: Bad rss-counter

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 9:56 PM Zhou Yanjie <zhouyanjie@...yeetech.com> wrote:
>
> On 2021/3/29 上午10:48, Ilya Lipnitskiy wrote:
> >
> > Try:
> > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> > index c8e357627318..1fd753245369 100644
> > --- a/mm/memory.c
> > +++ b/mm/memory.c
> > @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static int __init init_zero_pfn(void)
> >          zero_pfn = page_to_pfn(ZERO_PAGE(0));
> >          return 0;
> >   }
> > -core_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
> > +early_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
>
> It works, thanks!

Looks good to me - init_zero_pfn() can be called early, because it
depends on paging_init() will should have happened long before any
initcalls in setup_arch().

Ilya, mind sending a signed-off version with a nice commit message,
and I'll apply it.

             Linus