Hi all, While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next kernel, I've stumbled on the following spew: [ 1441.564471] BUG: Bad page state in process trinity-c612 pfn:12593a [ 1441.564476] page:ffffea0006e175c0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index: 0x49 [ 1441.564488] flags: 0xafffff8028000c(referenced|uptodate|swapbacked|mlocked) [ 1441.564491] page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set [ 1441.564493] bad because of flags: [ 1441.564498] flags: 0x200000(mlocked) [ 1441.564503] Modules linked in: [ 1441.564511] CPU: 2 PID: 11657 Comm: trinity-c612 Not tainted 3.18.0-rc3-next-20141106-sasha-00054-g09b7ccf-dirty #1447 [ 1441.564519] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 1ffffffff3b44e48 ffff8805c969b868 [ 1441.564526] ffffffff9c085024 0000000000000000 ffffea0006e175c0 ffff8805c969b898 [ 1441.564532] ffffffff925fd0a1 ffffea0006e17628 dfffe90000000000 0000000000000000 [ 1441.564534] Call Trace: [ 1441.568496] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52) [ 1441.568516] bad_page (mm/page_alloc.c:338) [ 1441.568523] free_pages_prepare (mm/page_alloc.c:649 mm/page_alloc.c:755) [ 1441.568531] free_hot_cold_page (mm/page_alloc.c:1436) [ 1441.568541] free_hot_cold_page_list (mm/page_alloc.c:1482 (discriminator 3)) [ 1441.568555] release_pages (mm/swap.c:961) [ 1441.568566] __pagevec_release (include/linux/pagevec.h:44 mm/swap.c:978) [ 1441.568579] shmem_undo_range (include/linux/pagevec.h:69 mm/shmem.c:451) [ 1441.568591] shmem_truncate_range (mm/shmem.c:546) [ 1441.568599] shmem_fallocate (include/linux/spinlock.h:309 mm/shmem.c:2092) [ 1441.568612] ? __sb_start_write (fs/super.c:1208) [ 1441.568622] ? __sb_start_write (fs/super.c:1208) [ 1441.568633] do_fallocate (fs/open.c:297) [ 1441.568648] SyS_madvise (mm/madvise.c:332 mm/madvise.c:381 mm/madvise.c:531 mm/madvise.c:462) [ 1441.568660] ? syscall_trace_enter_phase1 (include/linux/context_tracking.h:27 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1486) [ 1441.568672] tracesys_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:529) I'm slightly confused here, because the page is mapcount==0, not LOCKED but still MLOCKED... Thanks, Sasha -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>