Re: [PATCH] do_wp_page: BUG on invalid pfn

From: Mike Fedyk
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 16:24:20 EST


On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:15:45PM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > In message <87d6fixvpm.fsf@xxxxxxx> you write:
> >> This patch just does what the comment says should be done.
> >
> > Hi Ed!
> >
> > Not trivial I'm afraid. Send to Linus and lkml.
>
>
> This patch just does what the comment says should be done. I thought
> it was a trivial patch, but Rusty Russell has informed me otherwise.
> (Thanks, RR).
>
>
> --- linux-2.6.0-test2/mm/memory.c.orig Sun Jul 27 13:01:24 2003
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test2/mm/memory.c Wed Aug 6 18:30:55 2003
> @@ -990,15 +990,10 @@
> int ret;
>
> if (unlikely(!pfn_valid(pfn))) {
> - /*
> - * This should really halt the system so it can be debugged or
> - * at least the kernel stops what it's doing before it corrupts
> - * data, but for the moment just pretend this is OOM.
> - */
> - pte_unmap(page_table);
> printk(KERN_ERR "do_wp_page: bogus page at address %08lx\n",
> address);
> - goto oom;
> + dump_stack();
> + BUG();

You're not unmapping the pte I guess to not interfere with the dump_stack,
but what about the printk? Will that affect the dump_stack also?
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