Bug 641460

Summary: KSM: fix page_address_in_vma anon_vma oops [rhel-6.0.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Benjamin Kahn <bkahn>
Component: kernelAssignee: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Zhouping Liu <zliu>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.0CC: aarcange, arozansk, dhoward, jpirko, mjenner, nobody+295318, pm-eus, qcai, syeghiay, tburke, wenliu, zliu
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-71.4.1.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Occasionally, the anon_vma variable could contain the value null in the page_address_in_vma function and cause kernel panic. With this update, kernel panic no longer occurs.
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Bug Depends On: 640576    
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Description Benjamin Kahn 2010-10-08 18:56:48 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #640576 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.0 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Frantisek Hrbata 2010-10-12 18:53:30 UTC
in kernel-2.6.32-71.4.1.el6

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-10 19:11:13 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html

Comment 9 Martin Prpič 2010-11-11 12:02:36 UTC
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    New Contents:
Occasionally, the anon_vma variable could contain the value null in the page_address_in_vma function and cause kernel panic. With this update, kernel panic no longer occurs.