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Oscar Salvador authored
While playing with gigantic hugepages and memory_hotplug, I triggered the following #PF when "cat memoryX/removable": BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 #PF error: [normal kernel read fault] PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 1 PID: 1481 Comm: cat Tainted: G E 4.20.0-rc6-mm1-1-default+ #18 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.0.0-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:has_unmovable_pages+0x154/0x210 Call Trace: is_mem_section_removable+0x7d/0x100 removable_show+0x90/0xb0 dev_attr_show+0x1c/0x50 sysfs_kf_seq_show+0xca/0x1b0 seq_read+0x133/0x380 __vfs_read+0x26/0x180 vfs_read+0x89/0x140 ksys_read+0x42/0x90 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x180 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 The reason is we do not pass the Head to page_hstate(), and so, the call to compound_order() in page_hstate() returns 0, so we end up checking all ...
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