From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757444AbaDVUBq (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:01:46 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:56021 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756437AbaDVT6a (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:58:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 10:15:15 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Jiang Liu Cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Ingo Molnar , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , Tony Luck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Bugfix] sched: fix possible invalid memory access caused by CPU hot-addition Message-ID: <20140422081515.GF11182@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1398144435-26271-1-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1398144435-26271-1-git-send-email-jiang.liu@linux.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:27:15PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote: > When calling kzalloc_node(size, flags, node), we should first check > whether node is onlined, otherwise it may cause invalid memory access > as below. But this is only for memory less node crap, right?