Hi Greg, Please queue this commit for 3.0+ 98398c32f6687ee1e1f3ae084effb4b75adb0747 mm/hugetlb: check for pte NULL pointer in __page_check_address() I should have added the stable tag when I sent the patch. I didn't manage to trigger the bug, but now I've found a reliable way to reproduce it: 1. process 1 mmap() a hugetlb file, then sleep. 2. process 2 mmap() the same hugetlb file, memset the return address, then sleep. 3. soft offline the hugetlb page, and kernel get crashed: [ 179.167579] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffeba400000030 [ 179.174530] IP: [<ffffffff814e2829>] _raw_spin_lock+0x9/0x30 [ 179.180180] PGD 0 [ 179.182189] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP [ 179.185418] Modules linked in: lp ppdev parport_pc parport joydev st sr_mod ide_gd_mod ide_cd_mod cdrom binfmt_misc cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave microcode fuse loop dm_mod igb dca i2c_algo_bit iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ptp lpc_ich pps_core hid_generic bnx2 serio_raw sg ehci_pci pcspkr mfd_core rtc_cmos i7core_edac mptctl edac_core button i2c_i801 acpi_cpufreq i2c_core usbhid hid uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore sd_mod usb_common crc_t10dif crct10dif_common scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh edd ext3 mbcache jbd fan ide_pci_generic ide_core ata_generic ata_piix libata thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas scsi_mod [ 179.247994] CPU: 3 PID: 4893 Comm: bash Not tainted 3.13.0-rc4+ #58 [ 179.254232] Hardware name: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Tecal RH2285 /BC11BTSA , BIOS CTSAV036 04/27/2011 [ 179.265743] task: ffff880c21084450 ti: ffff880c26186000 task.ti: ffff880c26186000 [ 179.273190] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff814e2829>] [<ffffffff814e2829>] _raw_spin_lock+0x9/0x30 [ 179.281256] RSP: 0018:ffff880c26187ba8 EFLAGS: 00010206 [ 179.286541] RAX: 0000000000010000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000009 [ 179.293642] RDX: ffffea0000000000 RSI: ffffffff81e7a1f8 RDI: ffffeba400000030 [ 179.300743] RBP: ffff880c26187ba8 R08: 0000000000001000 R09: 0000000000000006 [ 179.307845] R10: 0000000000000461 R11: 0000000000000006 R12: ffffeba400000030 [ 179.314945] R13: ffffea00156c1000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880c26187c28 [ 179.322047] FS: 00007f96b110d700(0000) GS:ffff88063fc60000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 179.330101] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 00002677f000 CR4: 00000000000007e0 [ 179.342920] Stack: [ 179.344919] ffff880c26187be8 ffffffff81156bee ffffffff81d42682 00002aaaaae00000 [ 179.352319] ffff880627304150 ffff88062366c040 ffffea00156c1000 ffffea00156c1018 [ 179.359718] ffff880c26187c58 ffffffff81156cf1 ffffea0000c32000 0000000000000000 [ 179.367122] Call Trace: [ 179.369559] [<ffffffff81156bee>] __page_check_address+0xce/0x1a0 [ 179.375625] [<ffffffff81156cf1>] try_to_unmap_one+0x31/0x450 [ 179.381345] [<ffffffff814de1d1>] ? printk+0x54/0x78 [ 179.386287] [<ffffffff81157ebe>] try_to_unmap_file+0xce/0x2c0 [ 179.392094] [<ffffffff81158155>] try_to_unmap+0x55/0x70 [ 179.397382] [<ffffffff811780fd>] unmap_and_move_huge_page+0xcd/0x1c0 [ 179.403794] [<ffffffff8112a9f0>] ? page_alloc_cpu_notify+0x50/0x50 [ 179.410034] [<ffffffff8117869e>] migrate_pages+0x9e/0x210 [ 179.415494] [<ffffffff8117dab0>] ? soft_offline_huge_page+0x1f0/0x1f0 [ 179.421992] [<ffffffff8117d979>] soft_offline_huge_page+0xb9/0x1f0 [ 179.428229] [<ffffffff8117ec13>] soft_offline_page+0x133/0x250 [ 179.434124] [<ffffffff813935f8>] store_soft_offline_page+0xb8/0xd0 [ 179.440363] [<ffffffff8137b9ab>] dev_attr_store+0x1b/0x20 [ 179.445825] [<ffffffff811f6345>] flush_write_buffer+0x85/0x100 [ 179.451717] [<ffffffff811f6d27>] sysfs_write_file+0xf7/0x110 [ 179.457438] [<ffffffff811844b7>] vfs_write+0xc7/0x1e0 [ 179.462553] [<ffffffff811846ed>] SyS_write+0x5d/0xa0 [ 179.467583] [<ffffffff814ea962>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 179.473561] Code: 00 00 8d 91 00 00 01 00 89 c8 f0 0f b1 17 39 c1 ba 01 00 00 00 75 db 89 d0 c9 c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 55 48 89 e5 b8 00 00 01 00 <f0> 0f c1 07 89 c2 c1 ea 10 66 39 d0 75 0b eb 11 0f 1f 80 00 00 [ 179.493000] RIP [<ffffffff814e2829>] _raw_spin_lock+0x9/0x30 [ 179.498729] RSP <ffff880c26187ba8> [ 179.502198] CR2: ffffeba400000030 [ 179.505497] ---[ end trace 09e8ee8dfcf9bacf ]--- [ 179.510090] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception Thanks, Jianguo Wu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html