Re: [RFC BUG?] dereference PAGE_OFFSET address (rc7-mm2)

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:51:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Thanks for the report.  I can reproduce it.
> Bisection shows that x86_64-mm-paravirt-initial-pagetable.patch caused
> this.
> I didn't check whether the patch actually permits us to read kernel
> memory.  Probably it does.  Probably we'd prefer that it didn't ;)

Brown paper bag time. I don't know how it got past me.


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