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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't allow the stack to grow into hugetlb reserved regions
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:05:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070126120554.671b1d6a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070125214052.22841.33449.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:40:52 -0800
Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> When expanding the stack, we don't currently check if the VMA will cross into
> an area of the address space that is reserved for hugetlb pages. Subsequent
> faults on the expanded portion of such a VMA will confuse the low-level MMU
> code, resulting in an OOPS. Check for this.
We prefer not to oops. Is there any reason why this isn't a serious fix, needed
in 2.6.20 and 2.6.19?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-26 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-25 21:40 Adam Litke
2007-01-26 20:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-01-26 21:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-26 22:48 ` Ken Chen
2007-01-27 9:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-28 20:27 ` Ken Chen
2007-01-29 17:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-01-29 18:32 ` Ken Chen
2007-01-29 18:34 Adam Litke
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