From: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: oops in pseries_lmb_remove()
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:44:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E3D302.5040206@austin.ibm.com> (raw)
Testing hotplug memory remove has revealed that we can oops in
pseries_lmb_remove(). The incorrect shift causes a NULL pointer
dereference in the page_zone() inline routine.
I have only been able to reproduce the oops on kernels with large pages
enabled.
Tested on Power5 and Power6 with and without large pages enabled.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
---
Index: linux-2.6-paulus/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-paulus.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c 2008-08-25 13:08:27.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6-paulus/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-memory.c 2008-10-01 14:20:08.000000000 -0500
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
struct zone *zone;
int ret;
- start_pfn = base >> PFN_SECTION_SHIFT;
+ start_pfn = base >> PAGE_SHIFT;
zone = page_zone(pfn_to_page(start_pfn));
/*
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