Re: [PATCH] Fix sys_move_pages when a NULL node list is passed.

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Tue Nov 07 2006 - 21:11:29 EST


On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 18:01:11 -0800 (PST)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>
> > > pm[nr_pages].node = MAX_NUMNODES;
> >
> > I think node0 is always online...but this should be
> >
> > pm[i].node = first_online_node; // /* any online node */
>
> No it is a marker. The use of any node that is online could lead to a
> false determination of the endpoint of the list.
>
Ah.. I'm mentioning to this.
==
+ pm[i].node = 0; /* anything to not match MAX_NUMNODES */
==
Sorry for my bad cut & paste.

It seems that this 0 will be passed to alloc_pages_node().
alloc_pages_node() doesn't check whether a node is online or not before using
NODE_DATA().

-Kame

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