Re: [PATCH v5] mm/gup: check page hwposion status for coredump.

From: HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2021 - 02:54:18 EST


On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:07:39AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:52:59AM +0000, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
> > If we successfully unmapped but failed in truncate_error_page() for example,
> > the processes mapping the page would get -EFAULT as expected. But even in
> > this case, other processes could reach the error page via page cache and
> > __get_user_pages_locked() for them could return the hwpoisoned page.
>
> How would that happen? We check PageHWPoison before inserting a page
> into the page tables. See, eg, filemap_map_pages() and __do_fault().

Ah, you're right, that never happens. I misread the code.
Thanks for correcting me.