[Bug 202149] New: NULL Pointer Dereference in __split_huge_pmd on PPC64LE

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Tue Jan 8 18:15:08 AEDT 2019


Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> writes:

> (switched to email.  Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the
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> On Fri, 04 Jan 2019 22:49:52 +0000 bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
>
>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202149
>> 
>>             Bug ID: 202149
>>            Summary: NULL Pointer Dereference in __split_huge_pmd on
>>                     PPC64LE
>
> I think that trace is pointing at the ppc-specific
> pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw()?
>

That is correct. 

Matt,
Can you share the .config used for the kernel. Does this happen only
with 4K page size ?

-aneesh



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