[LTP] mmstress[1309]: segfault at 7f3d71a36ee8 ip 00007f3d77132bdf sp 00007f3d71a36ee8 error 4 in libc-2.27.so[7f3d77058000+1aa000]

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 12:14 AM Rasmus Villemoes
<linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:
>
> That's certainly garbage. Now, I don't know if it's a sufficient fix (or
> could break something else), but the obvious first step of rearranging
> so that the ptr argument is evaluated before the assignment to __val_pu

Ack. We could do that.

I'm more inclined to just bite the bullet and go back to the ugly
conditional on the size that I had hoped to avoid, but if that turns
out too ugly, mind signing off on your patch and I'll have that as a
fallback?

             Linus