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From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:52:54 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] IA64: virt_to_page() can be called with NULL arg
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>>>>>>"akpm" = akpm  <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> 
> 
> akpm> From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> It does not return NULL
> akpm> when arg is NULL.
> 
> Shouldn't the real fix be to track down who calls virt_to_page() with
> a NULL pointer? IMHO it is bogus to do so.
what do you propose? to insert BUG_ON(!kaddr) into virt_to_page()?
in this case caller in question should be still fixed.

Thanks,
Kirill