Re: [PATCH v3] mm: pagewalk: Fix walk for hugepage tables

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Jun 27 2021 - 21:12:32 EST


On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 05:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pagewalk ignores hugepd entries and walk down the tables
> as if it was traditionnal entries, leading to crazy result.
>
> Add walk_hugepd_range() and use it to walk hugepage tables.

More details, please? I assume "crazy result" is userspace visible?
For how long has this bug existed? Is a -stable backport needed? Has
a Fixes: commit been identified? etcetera!