75000 CR4: 00000690 DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: 00004000 DR7: 00000000 [] free_unmap_vmap_area_noflush+0x6e/0x70 [] remove_vm_area+0x2a/0x70 [] __vunmap+0x45/0xe0 [] vunmap+0x1e/0x30 [] text_poke+0x95/0x150 [] alternatives_smp_unlock+0x49/0x60 [] alternative_instructions+0x11b/0x124 [] check_bugs+0xbd/0xdc [] start_kernel+0x2ed/0x360 [] __init_begin+0x9e/0xa9 [] 0xffffffff It happened here: $ addr2line -e vmlinux -i c1096df7 mm/vmalloc.c:540 Code: list_for_each_entry(va, &valist, purge_list) __free_vmap_area(va); It's this instruction: mov 0x20(%ebx),%edx Which corresponds to a dereference of va->purge_list.next: (gdb) p ((struct vmap_area *) 0)->purge_list.next Cannot access memory at address 0x20 It seems that we should use "safe" list traversal here, as the element is freed inside the loop. Please verify that this is the right fix. Acked-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds