mm/memory-failure: use a mutex to avoid memory_failure() races
Patch series "mm,hwpoison: fix sending SIGBUS for Action Required MCE", v5. I wrote this patchset to materialize what I think is the current allowable solution mentioned by the previous discussion [1]. I simply borrowed Tony's mutex patch and Aili's return code patch, then I queued another one to find error virtual address in the best effort manner. I know that this is not a perfect solution, but should work for some typical case. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20210331192540.2141052f@alex-virtual-machine/ This patch (of 2): There can be races when multiple CPUs consume poison from the same page. The first into memory_failure() atomically sets the HWPoison page flag and begins hunting for tasks that map this page. Eventually it invalidates those mappings and may send a SIGBUS to the affected tasks. But while all that work is going on, other CPUs see a "success" return code from memory_failure() and so they believe the error has been handled and continue executing. Fix by wrapping most of the internal parts of memory_failure() in a mutex. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make mf_mutex local to memory_failure()] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521030156.2612074-1-nao.horiguchi@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521030156.2612074-2-nao.horiguchi@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jue Wang <juew@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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