From: Matt Mullins <mmull...@fb.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 20:28:46 +0000

> On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 14:50 -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> I'm surprised this problem wasn't discovered sooner.  How exactly did you
>> discover it?  Did you actually see it trigger or is this purely from code
>> inspection?
> 
> Honestly, I'm not sure how it got uncovered, but it was observed at
> runtime.  Doron Roberts-Kedes hit a null pointer dereference so we
> turned on CONFIG_DEBUG_SG -- then it became a proper
> BUG_ON(!virt_addr_valid(buf)); in sg_set_buf.

Fair enough, thanks for the info.

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