Re: segfaults of processes while being killed after commit "mm: make the page fault mmap locking killable"

[Fiona Ebner]

Am 25.07.23 um 18:38 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 04:16, Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> will end up without a vma and cause/log the segfault. Of course the
>> process is already being killed, but I'd argue it is very confusing to
>> users when apparent segfaults from such processes are being logged by
>> the kernel.
> 
> Ahh. Yes, that wasn't the intent. A process that is being killed
> should exit with the lethal signal, not SIGSEGV.
> 

Checking the status from waitpid, it does show that the process was
terminated by signal 9, even if the segfault was logged.

> But before we revert it, would you mind trying out the attached
> trivial patch instead?
> 

The patch works for me too :) (after adding the missing tsk argument
like Thomas pointed out)

> I'd also still be interested if the symptoms were anything else than
> 'show_unhandled_signals' causing the show_signal_msg() dance, and
> resulting in a message something like
> 
>     a.out[1567]: segfault at xyz ip [..] likely on CPU X
> 
> in dmesg...
> 
Yes, AFAICS, it is just those messages and nothing else.

Best Regards,
Fiona