On 18 Jul  9:26, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
> 
> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any
> objections, please let us know.
> 
> ===============
> 
> commit 4a705fef986231a3e7a6b1a6d3c37025f021f49f upstream.
> 
> There's a race between fork() and hugepage migration, as a result we try
> to "dereference" a swap entry as a normal pte, causing kernel panic.
> The cause of the problem is that copy_hugetlb_page_range() can't handle
> "swap entry" family (migration entry and hwpoisoned entry) so let's fix
> it.
> 

This change introduces a regression.  You might want to drop this patch
until the fix reaches Linus' tree:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/17/671


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