mm: fix kernel crash in khugepaged thread
authoryalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>
Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:40:30 +0000 (16:40 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 22 Jan 2016 01:20:51 +0000 (17:20 -0800)
commit16fd0fe4aa92d0d621ecfe21de86f7fdcfa41947
treed94d862bb32b160dcacb5467c099f52748f5f1dd
parent7162a1e87b3e380133dadc7909081bb70d0a7041
mm: fix kernel crash in khugepaged thread

This crash is caused by NULL pointer deference, in page_to_pfn() marco,
when page == NULL :

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
  Internal error: Oops: 94000006 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 PID: 26 Comm: khugepaged Tainted: G        W       4.3.0-rc6-next-20151022ajb-00001-g32f3386-dirty #3
  PC is at khugepaged+0x378/0x1af8
  LR is at khugepaged+0x418/0x1af8
  Process khugepaged (pid: 26, stack limit = 0xffffffc079638020)
  Call trace:
    khugepaged+0x378/0x1af8
    kthread+0xdc/0xf4
    ret_from_fork+0xc/0x40
  Code: 35001700 f0002c60 aa0703e3 f9009fa0 (f94000e0)
  ---[ end trace 637503d8e28ae69e  ]---
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
  CPU2: stopping
  CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Tainted: G      D W       4.3.0-rc6-next-20151022ajb-00001-g32f3386-dirty #3
  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fat-fingered merge resolution]
Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
mm/huge_memory.c