Re: [PATCH] do_wp_page: BUG on invalid pfn

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:15:45PM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:
> 
> > In message <87d6fixvpm.fsf@uga.edu> you write:
> >> This patch just does what the comment says should be done.
> >
> > Hi Ed!
> >
> > 	Not trivial I'm afraid.  Send to Linus and lkml.
> 
> 
> This patch just does what the comment says should be done.  I thought
> it was a trivial patch, but Rusty Russell has informed me otherwise.
> (Thanks, RR).
> 
> 
> --- linux-2.6.0-test2/mm/memory.c.orig	Sun Jul 27 13:01:24 2003
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test2/mm/memory.c	Wed Aug  6 18:30:55 2003
> @@ -990,15 +990,10 @@
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	if (unlikely(!pfn_valid(pfn))) {
> -		/*
> -		 * This should really halt the system so it can be debugged or
> -		 * at least the kernel stops what it's doing before it corrupts
> -		 * data, but for the moment just pretend this is OOM.
> -		 */
> -		pte_unmap(page_table);
>  		printk(KERN_ERR "do_wp_page: bogus page at address %08lx\n",
>  				address);
> -		goto oom;
> +		dump_stack();
> +		BUG();

You're not unmapping the pte I guess to not interfere with the dump_stack,
but what about the printk?  Will that affect the dump_stack also?