The patch titled
Subject: mm: make mem_dump_obj() handle NULL and zero-sized pointers
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-make-mem_dump_obj-handle-null-and-zero-sized-pointers.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: make mem_dump_obj() handle NULL and zero-sized pointers
This commit makes mem_dump_obj() call out NULL and zero-sized pointers
specially instead of classifying them as non-paged memory.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210106011750.13709-2-paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/util.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/util.c~mm-make-mem_dump_obj-handle-null-and-zero-sized-pointers
+++ a/mm/util.c
@@ -997,7 +997,12 @@ int __weak memcmp_pages(struct page *pag
void mem_dump_obj(void *object)
{
if (!virt_addr_valid(object)) {
- pr_cont(" non-paged (local) memory.\n");
+ if (object == NULL)
+ pr_cont(" NULL pointer.\n");
+ else if (object == ZERO_SIZE_PTR)
+ pr_cont(" zero-size pointer.\n");
+ else
+ pr_cont(" non-paged (local) memory.\n");
return;
}
if (kmem_valid_obj(object)) {
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx are
