Re: copy_huge_page: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008

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On 03/29/2015, 01:25 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> But you are very appositely mistaken: copy_huge_page() used to make
> the same mistake, and Dave Hansen fixed it back in v3.13, but the fix
> never went to the stable trees.
> 
> Your report was on an Ubuntu "3.11.0-15" kernel: I think Ubuntu have
> discontinued their 3.11-stable kernel series, but 3.10-longterm and
> 3.12-longterm would benefit from including this fix.  I haven't tried
> patching and  building and testing it there, but it looks reasonable.
> 
> Hugh
> 
> commit 30b0a105d9f7141e4cbf72ae5511832457d89788
> Author: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Nov 21 14:31:58 2013 -0800
> 
>     mm: thp: give transparent hugepage code a separate copy_page

Applied to 3.12. Thanks.

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js
suse labs
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