On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 01:30:20PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > > > On 8/21/18 11:43 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 11:37 -0700, Yang Shi wrote: > > > I just ran some regression test on stable 4.9.122 with LTP. madvise05 > > > triggers the below kernel panic: > > Thanks, David. It works. A silly question, I don't get why this commit could > solve this issue, it looks just like a code refactor. Just because it > changed how to get pfn from page table entries? And, this may cause some > mismatch on 4.9 stable without it?
With the L1TF patches open coded pte_val() to get the PFN can cause problems because it doesn't do the invert for PROT_NONE mappings The cleanup changes the open coded versions to use p*_pfn(), which always works correctly. -Andi
