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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump.
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On 17.03.21 09:37, Aili Yao wrote:
> When we do coredump for user process signal, this may be an SIGBUS signal
> with BUS_MCEERR_AR or BUS_MCEERR_AO code, which means this signal is
> resulted from ECC memory fail like SRAR or SRAO, we expect the memory
> recovery work is finished correctly, then the get_dump_page() will not
> return the error page as its process pte is set invalid by
> memory_failure().
>
> But memory_failure() may fail, and the process's related pte may not be
> correctly set invalid, for current code, we will return the poison page
> and get it dumped and lead to system panic as its in kernel code.
>
> So check the poison status in get_dump_page(), and if TRUE, return NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>
> ---
> mm/gup.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index e4c224c..499a496 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -1536,6 +1536,14 @@ struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr)
> FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET);
> if (locked)
> mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE) && ret == 1) {
> + if (unlikely(PageHuge(page) && PageHWPoison(compound_head(page))))
> + ret = 0;
> + else if (unlikely(PageHWPoison(page)))
> + ret = 0;
> + }

I wonder if a simple

if (PageHWPoison(compound_head(page)))
ret = 0;

won't suffice. But I guess the "issue" is compound pages that are not
huge pages or transparent huge pages.

If not, we certainly want a wrapper for that magic, otherwise we have to
replicate the same logic all over the place.

> +
> return (ret == 1) ? page : NULL;
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_ELF_CORE */
>


--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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