Re: [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: check mm when killing accessing process

From: Shuai Xue
Date: Wed Sep 14 2022 - 22:08:50 EST




在 2022/9/15 AM9:48, Naoya Horiguchi 写道:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 02:49:35PM +0800, Shuai Xue wrote:
>> The GHES code calls memory_failure_queue() from IRQ context to queue work
>> into workqueue and schedule it on the current CPU. Then the work is
>> processed in memory_failure_work_func() by kworker and calls
>> memory_failure().
>>
>> When a page is already poisoned, commit a3f5d80ea401 ("mm,hwpoison: send
>> SIGBUS with error virutal address") make memory_failure() call
>> kill_accessing_process() that:
>>
>> - holds mmap locking of current->mm
>> - does pagetable walk to find the error virtual address
>> - and sends SIGBUS to the current process with error info.
>>
>> However, the mm of kworker is not valid. Therefore, check mm when killing
>> accessing process.
>>
>> Fixes: a3f5d80ea401 ("mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address")
>> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you for the patch, the fix itself makes sense to me.
> I agree with this patch with applying comments from Andrew.
>
> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>

Thank you for prompt review.

Cheers,
Shuai