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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG 3.0.0-rc1] ksm: NULL pointer dereference in ksm_do_scan()
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:36:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110602143622.GE19505@random.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110602143143.GI23047@sequoia.sous-sol.org>

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * CAI Qian (caiqian@redhat.com) wrote:
> > madvise(0x2210000, 4096, 0xc /* MADV_??? */) = 0
> > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> 
> Right, that's just what the program is trying to do, segfault.
> 
> > +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > 
> > Did I miss anything?
> 
> I found it works but not 100% of the time.
> 
> So I just run the bug in a loop.

echo 0 >scan_millisecs helps.

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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com>,
	Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG 3.0.0-rc1] ksm: NULL pointer dereference in ksm_do_scan()
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:36:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110602143622.GE19505@random.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110602143143.GI23047@sequoia.sous-sol.org>

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 07:31:43AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * CAI Qian (caiqian@redhat.com) wrote:
> > madvise(0x2210000, 4096, 0xc /* MADV_??? */) = 0
> > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> 
> Right, that's just what the program is trying to do, segfault.
> 
> > +++ killed by SIGSEGV (core dumped) +++
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > 
> > Did I miss anything?
> 
> I found it works but not 100% of the time.
> 
> So I just run the bug in a loop.

echo 0 >scan_millisecs helps.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-02 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-01 22:20 [BUG 3.0.0-rc1] ksm: NULL pointer dereference in ksm_do_scan() Andrea Righi
2011-06-01 22:20 ` Andrea Righi
2011-06-02  1:53 ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02  1:53   ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02  7:09 ` CAI Qian
2011-06-02  7:09   ` CAI Qian
2011-06-02 14:19   ` Andrea Righi
2011-06-02 14:19     ` Andrea Righi
2011-06-02 16:48     ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02 16:48       ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02 17:29       ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-02 17:29         ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-02 17:43         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 17:43           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-03 17:06           ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-03 17:06             ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-03 18:13             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-03 18:13               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 17:35       ` [PATCH] ksm: fix race between ksmd and exiting task Chris Wright
2011-06-02 17:35         ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02 20:12         ` Andrea Righi
2011-06-02 20:12           ` Andrea Righi
2011-06-02 21:23           ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02 21:23             ` Chris Wright
2011-06-03 16:37         ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-03 16:37           ` Hugh Dickins
2011-06-04  0:54           ` [PATCH] ksm: fix NULL pointer dereference in scan_get_next_rmap_item Chris Wright
2011-06-04  0:54             ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02 20:10       ` [BUG 3.0.0-rc1] ksm: NULL pointer dereference in ksm_do_scan() Andrea Righi
2011-06-02 20:10         ` Andrea Righi
2011-06-03  4:42     ` CAI Qian
2011-06-03  4:42       ` CAI Qian
2011-06-02 14:31   ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02 14:31     ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02 14:36     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2011-06-02 14:36       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 15:36       ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02 15:36         ` Chris Wright
2011-06-02 16:44         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 16:44           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 20:15           ` Andrea Righi
2011-06-02 20:15             ` Andrea Righi
2011-06-02 21:35             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-02 21:35               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2011-06-03  4:50       ` CAI Qian
2011-06-03  4:50         ` CAI Qian
2011-06-03  4:44     ` CAI Qian
2011-06-03  4:44       ` CAI Qian

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