Hi Al, We noticed the below oops since commit 68a25f08c9bec07ad95e55a01b127168e43aed84 ("process_vm_access: take get_user_pages/put_pages one level up") while running ltp tests inside kvm. [ 466.193846] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffff27b92dd20 [ 466.195225] IP: [] put_page+0x5/0x28 [ 466.196263] PGD 220d067 PUD 0 [ 466.197137] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 466.197261] Modules linked in: msr microcode processor [ 466.197261] CPU: 2 PID: 30338 Comm: process_vm01 Not tainted 3.14.0-rc1-00027-g68a25f0 #1 [ 466.197261] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 [ 466.197261] task: ffff88007c11ecc0 ti: ffff88007b92c000 task.ti: ffff88007b92c000 [ 466.197261] RIP: 0010:[] [] put_page+0x5/0x28 [ 466.197261] RSP: 0018:ffff88007b92dc98 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 466.197261] RAX: fffffffffffffff0 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000001000 [ 466.197261] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000097230000 RDI: fffffff27b92dd20 [ 466.197261] RBP: ffff88007b92dde8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fe39722f001 [ 466.197261] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88007c11ecc0 [ 466.197261] R13: ffff88007b92dd40 R14: fffffffffffffff2 R15: ffff88007b92de10 [ 466.197261] FS: 00007fe397228700(0000) GS:ffff88011fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 466.197261] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 466.197261] CR2: fffffff27b92dd20 CR3: 000000007f537000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 466.197261] Stack: [ 466.197261] ffffffff811b7ea1 ffff88007b92dd40 0000000000000000 000000000000000d [ 466.197261] ffffffff81f7ad76 fffffff27b92dd20 ffff88007baa4420 0000000000000001 [ 466.197261] 0000000000000000 ffff88007b92deb0 0000000000001000 0000000000000001 [ 466.197261] Call Trace: [ 466.197261] [] ? process_vm_rw_core.isra.1+0x39f/0x444 [ 466.197261] [] ? handle_mm_fault+0x9e9/0xc9c [ 466.197261] [] ? might_fault+0x3e/0x40 [ 466.197261] [] ? rw_copy_check_uvector+0x6f/0xfd [ 466.197261] [] process_vm_rw+0xd1/0x117 [ 466.197261] [] ? do_mmap_pgoff+0x2e1/0x34c [ 466.197261] [] ? vm_mmap_pgoff+0x72/0x94 [ 466.197261] [] ? do_page_fault+0xe/0x10 [ 466.197261] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [ 466.197261] [] SyS_process_vm_readv+0x16/0x18 [ 466.197261] [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Attached is the full dmesg. Thanks, Fengguang