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authorNaoya Horiguchi2021-06-28 19:43:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2021-06-29 10:53:55 -0700
commita3f5d80ea401ac857f2910e28b15f35b2cf902f4 (patch)
treee5c231c04edcb393eea6c43f8e35ac88bfe19663 /tools
parent203c06eef579c670b8eb3a24108b9837bf9b7737 (diff)
mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address
Now an action required MCE in already hwpoisoned address surely sends a SIGBUS to current process, but the SIGBUS doesn't convey error virtual address. That's not optimal for hwpoison-aware applications. To fix the issue, make memory_failure() call kill_accessing_process(), that does pagetable walk to find the error virtual address. It could find multiple virtual addresses for the same error page, and it seems hard to tell which virtual address is correct one. But that's rare and sending incorrect virtual address could be better than no address. So let's report the first found virtual address for now. [naoya.horiguchi@nec.com: fix walk_page_range() return] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210603051055.GA244241@hori.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521030156.2612074-4-nao.horiguchi@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Jue Wang <juew@google.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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