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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>,
	Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/test_meminit: fix off-by-one error in test_pages()
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:26:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023101201-grasp-smartly-2085@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG_fn=X-dnc06r0Yik24jBaL-f7ZzrUQiUJmMHeN9CaSa3ZveQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:40:14AM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:17 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > In commit efb78fa86e95 ("lib/test_meminit: allocate pages up to order
> > MAX_ORDER"), the loop for testing pages is set to "<= MAX_ORDER" which
> > causes crashes in systems when run.  Fix this to "< MAX_ORDER" to fix
> > the test to work properly.
> 
> What are the crashes you are seeing? Are those OOMs?

They are WARN_ON() triggers.  They are burried in the Android build
system, let me see if I can uncover them.

> IIUC it should be valid to allocate with MAX_ORDER.

"should", but I no longer get runtime warnings with this patch applied,
so something is wrong :)

Let me go dig for the logs again...

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-12 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-12  8:17 [PATCH] lib/test_meminit: fix off-by-one error in test_pages() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-10-12  8:40 ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-10-12 10:26   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2023-10-12 10:37     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-10-12 11:14       ` Alexander Potapenko
2023-10-12 11:24         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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