Re: [4.9-rc3] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc900144dfc60

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 03 2016 - 02:34:08 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 4:50 AM, Tetsuo Handa
> <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> So I _think_ the fix is to just remove this. Perhaps something like
> >> the attached? Adding scheduler people since this is in their code..
> >
> > That is not sufficient, for another Oops occurs inside stack_not_used().
> > Since I don't want to break stack_not_used(), can we tolerate nested
> > try_get_task_stack() usage and protect the whole sched_show_task()?
>
> Sure, looks good to me.
>
> But as Andy says, we should probably apply my patch too, just to get
> rid of the useless hex printk and the ugly ifdeffery.

Agreed, and I have applied both fixes to sched/urgent.

Thanks,

Ingo