[PATCH] mm/memory-failure: Do not call action_result() on already poisoned pages

From: Kyle Meyer
Date: Thu Aug 21 2025 - 12:50:54 EST


Calling action_result() on already poisoned pages causes issues:

* The amount of hardware corrupted memory is incorrectly incremented.
* NUMA node memory failure statistics are incorrectly updated.
* Redundant "already poisoned" messages are printed.

Do not call action_result() on already poisoned pages and drop unused
MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED.

Fixes: b8b9488d50b7 ("mm/memory-failure: improve memory failure action_result messages")
Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle.meyer@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 1 -
include/ras/ras_event.h | 1 -
mm/memory-failure.c | 3 ---
3 files changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 1ae97a0b8ec7..09ce81ef7afc 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -4005,7 +4005,6 @@ enum mf_action_page_type {
MF_MSG_BUDDY,
MF_MSG_DAX,
MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP,
- MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED,
MF_MSG_UNKNOWN,
};

diff --git a/include/ras/ras_event.h b/include/ras/ras_event.h
index c8cd0f00c845..f62a52f5bd81 100644
--- a/include/ras/ras_event.h
+++ b/include/ras/ras_event.h
@@ -374,7 +374,6 @@ TRACE_EVENT(aer_event,
EM ( MF_MSG_BUDDY, "free buddy page" ) \
EM ( MF_MSG_DAX, "dax page" ) \
EM ( MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP, "unsplit thp" ) \
- EM ( MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED, "already poisoned" ) \
EMe ( MF_MSG_UNKNOWN, "unknown page" )

/*
diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index e2e685b971bb..7839ec83bc1d 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -948,7 +948,6 @@ static const char * const action_page_types[] = {
[MF_MSG_BUDDY] = "free buddy page",
[MF_MSG_DAX] = "dax page",
[MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP] = "unsplit thp",
- [MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED] = "already poisoned",
[MF_MSG_UNKNOWN] = "unknown page",
};

@@ -2090,7 +2089,6 @@ static int try_memory_failure_hugetlb(unsigned long pfn, int flags, int *hugetlb
if (flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED) {
folio = page_folio(p);
res = kill_accessing_process(current, folio_pfn(folio), flags);
- action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED, MF_FAILED);
}
return res;
} else if (res == -EBUSY) {
@@ -2283,7 +2281,6 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
res = kill_accessing_process(current, pfn, flags);
if (flags & MF_COUNT_INCREASED)
put_page(p);
- action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_ALREADY_POISONED, MF_FAILED);
goto unlock_mutex;
}

--
2.50.1