Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Apr 2022 11:53:33 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6] mm/hwpoison: fix race between hugetlb free/demotion and memory_failure_hugetlb() |
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On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 18:21:31 +0900 Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev> wrote:
> There is a race condition between memory_failure_hugetlb() and hugetlb > free/demotion, which causes setting PageHWPoison flag on the wrong page. > The one simple result is that wrong processes can be killed, but another > (more serious) one is that the actual error is left unhandled, so no one > prevents later access to it, and that might lead to more serious results > like consuming corrupted data.
Should this fix be backported into stable kernels?
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