On Mon,  2 Jul 2018 14:05:36 -0400 Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatas...@oracle.com> 
wrote:

> If struct page is poisoned, and uninitialized access is detected via
> PF_POISONED_CHECK(page) dump_page() is called to output the page. But,
> the dump_page() itself accesses struct page to determine how to print
> it, and therefore gets into a recursive loop.
> 
> For example:
> dump_page()
>  __dump_page()
>   PageSlab(page)
>    PF_POISONED_CHECK(page)
>     VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(PagePoisoned(page), page)
>      dump_page() recursion loop.
> 
> Fixes: f165b378bbdf ("mm: uninitialized struct page poisoning sanity 
> checking")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatas...@oracle.com>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>

Thanks.  I added a cc:stable to make sure this gets into 4.17.x.

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