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Commit 16fd0fe4 authored by yalin wang's avatar yalin wang Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: fix kernel crash in khugepaged thread



This crash is caused by NULL pointer deference, in page_to_pfn() marco,
when page == NULL :

  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
  Internal error: Oops: 94000006 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 PID: 26 Comm: khugepaged Tainted: G        W       4.3.0-rc6-next-20151022ajb-00001-g32f3386-dirty #3
  PC is at khugepaged+0x378/0x1af8
  LR is at khugepaged+0x418/0x1af8
  Process khugepaged (pid: 26, stack limit = 0xffffffc079638020)
  Call trace:
    khugepaged+0x378/0x1af8
    kthread+0xdc/0xf4
    ret_from_fork+0xc/0x40
  Code: 35001700 f0002c60 aa0703e3 f9009fa0 (f94000e0)
  ---[ end trace 637503d8e28ae69e  ]---
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
  CPU2: stopping
  CPU: 2 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Tainted: G      D W       4.3.0-rc6-next-20151022ajb-00001-g32f3386-dirty #3
  Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fat-fingered merge resolution]
Signed-off-by: default avataryalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 7162a1e8
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