Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932957AbaFQOJO (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:09:14 -0400 Received: from qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.27.211]:47099 "EHLO qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932752AbaFQOJN (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:09:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:09:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Christoph Lameter To: Sasha Levin cc: Hugh Dickins , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Konstantin Khlebnikov , Mel Gorman , Bob Liu , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Andrew Morton , LKML , Dave Jones Subject: Re: mm: NULL ptr deref in remove_migration_pte In-Reply-To: <539F5BC5.3010501@oracle.com> Message-ID: References: <534E9ACA.2090008@oracle.com> <5367B365.1070709@oracle.com> <537FE9F3.40508@oracle.com> <538498A1.7010305@oracle.com> <539F5BC5.3010501@oracle.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 Jun 2014, Sasha Levin wrote: > It took some time to hit something here, but I think that the following > is related: This related thing looks like someone did a random memset. The SLUB diagnostic show the object, redzone and padding were overwritten with zeros. > [ 494.710068] ============================================================================= > [ 494.710068] BUG page->ptl (Not tainted): Redzone overwritten > [ 494.710068] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ 494.710068] > [ 494.710068] INFO: 0xffff8804e4730e58-0xffff8804e4730e5f. First byte 0x0 instead of 0xbb > [ 494.710068] INFO: Slab 0xffffea001391cc00 objects=40 used=40 fp=0x (null) flags=0x56fffff80004080 > [ 494.710068] INFO: Object 0xffff8804e4730e10 @offset=3600 fp=0x (null) > [ 494.710068] > [ 494.710068] Bytes b4 ffff8804e4730e00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ > [ 494.710068] Object ffff8804e4730e10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ > [ 494.710068] Object ffff8804e4730e20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ > [ 494.710068] Object ffff8804e4730e30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ > [ 494.710068] Object ffff8804e4730e40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ > [ 494.710068] Object ffff8804e4730e50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ > [ 494.710068] Redzone ffff8804e4730e58: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ > [ 494.710068] Padding ffff8804e4730f98: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/