Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:32:40 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: kernel BUG at /src/linux-dev/mm/mempolicy.c:1738! on v3.16-rc1 |
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> [PATCH] mm: fix crashes from mbind() merging vmas > > v2.6.34's 9d8cebd4bcd7 ("mm: fix mbind vma merge problem") introduced > vma merging to mbind(), but it should have also changed the convention > of passing start vma from queue_pages_range() (formerly check_range()) > to new_vma_page(): vma merging may have already freed that structure, > resulting in BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:1738 and probably worse crashes.
Good catch. Cannot find fault with what I see.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
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