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authorJane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>2024-05-24 15:53:02 -0600
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2024-07-03 19:29:57 -0700
commitaa298fdf535d47df1279b12a0212deb2389f709a (patch)
treee2ba21692aa31bb99c6e396ca51b3c4466044b06 /mm/memory-failure.c
parent6faa49d1c4404e0b949fd92f1e891c24870d4f86 (diff)
mm/memory-failure: try to send SIGBUS even if unmap failed
Patch series "Enhance soft hwpoison handling and injection", v4. This series is aimed at the following enhancements: - Let one hwpoison injector, that is, madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) to behave more like as if a real UE occurred. Because the other two injectors such as hwpoison-inject and the 'einj' on x86 can't, and it seems to me we need a better simulation to real UE scenario. - For years, if the kernel is unable to unmap a hwpoisoned page, it send a SIGKILL instead of SIGBUS to prevent user process from potentially accessing the page again. But in doing so, the user process also lose important information: vaddr, for recovery. Fortunately, the kernel already has code to kill process re-accessing a hwpoisoned page, so remove the '!unmap_success' check. - Right now, if a thp page under GUP longterm pin is hwpoisoned, and kernel cannot split the thp page, memory-failure simply ignores the UE and returns. That's not ideal, it could deliver a SIGBUS with useful information for userspace recovery. This patch (of 5): For years when it comes down to kill a process due to hwpoison, a SIGBUS is delivered only if unmap has been successful. Otherwise, a SIGKILL is delivered. And the reason for that is to prevent the involved process from accessing the hwpoisoned page again. Since then a lot has changed, a hwpoisoned page is marked and upon being re-accessed, the memory-failure handler invokes kill_accessing_process() to kill the process immediately. So let's take out the '!unmap_success' factor and try to deliver SIGBUS if possible. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524215306.2705454-1-jane.chu@oracle.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240524215306.2705454-2-jane.chu@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <oalvador@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory-failure.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory-failure.c15
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index d3c830e817e3..0ce5f5176435 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -514,22 +514,15 @@ void add_to_kill_ksm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct page *p,
*
* Only do anything when FORCEKILL is set, otherwise just free the
* list (this is used for clean pages which do not need killing)
- * Also when FAIL is set do a force kill because something went
- * wrong earlier.
*/
-static void kill_procs(struct list_head *to_kill, int forcekill, bool fail,
+static void kill_procs(struct list_head *to_kill, int forcekill,
unsigned long pfn, int flags)
{
struct to_kill *tk, *next;
list_for_each_entry_safe(tk, next, to_kill, nd) {
if (forcekill) {
- /*
- * In case something went wrong with munmapping
- * make sure the process doesn't catch the
- * signal and then access the memory. Just kill it.
- */
- if (fail || tk->addr == -EFAULT) {
+ if (tk->addr == -EFAULT) {
pr_err("%#lx: forcibly killing %s:%d because of failure to unmap corrupted page\n",
pfn, tk->tsk->comm, tk->tsk->pid);
do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV,
@@ -1660,7 +1653,7 @@ static bool hwpoison_user_mappings(struct folio *folio, struct page *p,
*/
forcekill = folio_test_dirty(folio) || (flags & MF_MUST_KILL) ||
!unmap_success;
- kill_procs(&tokill, forcekill, !unmap_success, pfn, flags);
+ kill_procs(&tokill, forcekill, pfn, flags);
return unmap_success;
}
@@ -1724,7 +1717,7 @@ static void unmap_and_kill(struct list_head *to_kill, unsigned long pfn,
unmap_mapping_range(mapping, start, size, 0);
}
- kill_procs(to_kill, flags & MF_MUST_KILL, false, pfn, flags);
+ kill_procs(to_kill, flags & MF_MUST_KILL, pfn, flags);
}
/*