Re: 2.6.28-rc6-git1 -- BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8800be8b0019

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Hi Hugh,

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Reverting my patch for now: that's certainly a reasonable possibility,
> but leaves us with several other such bugs.  Suggested patch below,
> but the ftrace part of it worries me a little, since it's within a
> structure and maybe it's a bad idea to enlarge that at this point;
> I've also not _really_ done the arithmetic needed for the slub one.

For SLUB, I think you can just replace the 100 with KSYM_NAME_LEN and it 
will work fine. The 100 constant is already supposed to be big enough to 
fit the symbol and the rest.

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> An alternative quick just-for-now fix might be to remove that
> 	namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN - 1] = 0;
> from kallsyms_lookup(): as I understand it (please check), that
> could only make sense in cases where the symbol is KSYM_NAME_LEN
> long or longer - in which case, all of the places fixed in the
> patch below would be causing corruption already, even without my
> patch.  I think.  Maybe that "= 0" even serves no purpose at all?

I like this approach the best but I worry it's a can of worms especially 
this late in the cycle.

As a stop-gap measure, I'm fine with your proposed patch either as-is or 
with the suggestions I had for the SLUB case.

		Pekka