From: "Kenneth R. Crudup" <kenny@panix.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commit 25f12ae45fc1 ("maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofault") causing several OOPSes
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:45:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2006190043240.9276@xps-7390> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200619074233.GA3723@lst.de>
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Just to re-reconfirm, you had to
> revert "maccess: rename probe_kernel_address to get_kernel_nofault",
> "maccess: make get_kernel_nofault() check for minimal type compatibility"
> wasn't enough?
Yeah. the bisect turned up the commit in the subject: and reverting it
(only) stopped the crashes. This was this afternoon's (US PST) Linus' master.
> Below is a patch to do a "partial revert" for probe_roms.c.
I'll give it a shot later, thanks.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Orange County CA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-19 7:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2020-06-19 6:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-19 6:57 ` Kenneth R. Crudup
2020-06-19 7:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-19 7:45 ` Kenneth R. Crudup [this message]
2020-06-20 13:46 ` Kenneth R. Crudup
2020-06-20 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-20 17:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-21 19:33 ` Kenneth R. Crudup
2020-06-21 19:29 ` Kenneth R. Crudup
2020-06-21 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-26 8:36 ` Kenneth R. Crudup
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