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SubjectRe: mm: BUG in mempolicy's sp_insert
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 02/25/2013 08:52 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running latest -next kernel,
>>> I've stumbled on the following BUG:
>>>
>>> [13551.830090] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>> [13551.830090] kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:2187!
>>> [13551.830090] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>>
>> Unfortunately, I didn't reproduce this. I'll try it tonight.
>
> I've actually managed to reproduce it again since then, so it's not a one time
> fluke (which is a good sign a I guess).
>
> It did require about an hour of fuzzing just mm with trinity.
>
Insert new node after updating node in tree.

Hillf

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c Tue Feb 26 19:33:20 2013
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c Tue Feb 26 19:35:38 2013
@@ -2391,8 +2391,8 @@ restart:
*mpol_new = *n->policy;
atomic_set(&mpol_new->refcnt, 1);
sp_node_init(n_new, n->end, end, mpol_new);
- sp_insert(sp, n_new);
n->end = start;
+ sp_insert(sp, n_new);
n_new = NULL;
mpol_new = NULL;
break;
--

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