From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: BlaisorBlade <blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Trivial -critical : BUG()gy behaviour on OOM
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 16:01:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040216000150.GD631@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402151647.39907.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it>
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 04:47:39PM +0100, BlaisorBlade wrote:
> In short: in vanilla 2.6.3-rc2 (and also 2.6.2-mm1) do_swap_page() can return
> -ENOMEM while value return values are VM_FAULT_*; invalid return values can
> result in BUG() being called, so this patch (or a better fix) should go in
> soon. This patch corrects this by returning VM_FAULT_OOM in that case.
> CC me on replies, please, as I'm not subscribed. Thanks.
> In detail: do_swap_page returns -ENOMEM when memory allocation fails; the
> return value will in turn be returned by handle_pte_fault and handle_mm_fault
> to this code in do_page_fault:
Yep. This is bust.
akpm please apply.
-- wli
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2004-02-15 15:47 [PATCH] Trivial -critical : BUG()gy behaviour on OOM BlaisorBlade
2004-02-16 0:01 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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