Re: [PATCH] mm,hwpoison: check mm when killing accessing process

[Miaohe Lin]

On 2022/9/14 14:49, Shuai Xue wrote:
> The GHES code calls memory_failure_queue() from IRQ context to queue work
> into workqueue and schedule it on the current CPU. Then the work is
> processed in memory_failure_work_func() by kworker and calls
> memory_failure().
> 
> When a page is already poisoned, commit a3f5d80ea401 ("mm,hwpoison: send
> SIGBUS with error virutal address") make memory_failure() call
> kill_accessing_process() that:
> 
>     - holds mmap locking of current->mm
>     - does pagetable walk to find the error virtual address
>     - and sends SIGBUS to the current process with error info.
> 
> However, the mm of kworker is not valid. Therefore, check mm when killing
> accessing process.
> 
> Fixes: a3f5d80ea401 ("mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address")
> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for fixing.

Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Miaohe Lin


> ---
>  mm/memory-failure.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index 14439806b5ef..7553917ce820 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -743,6 +743,9 @@ static int kill_accessing_process(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long pfn,
>  	};
>  	priv.tk.tsk = p;
>  
> +	if (!p->mm)
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +
>  	mmap_read_lock(p->mm);
>  	ret = walk_page_range(p->mm, 0, TASK_SIZE, &hwp_walk_ops,
>  			      (void *)&priv);
> @@ -751,6 +754,7 @@ static int kill_accessing_process(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long pfn,
>  	else
>  		ret = 0;
>  	mmap_read_unlock(p->mm);
> +
>  	return ret > 0 ? -EHWPOISON : -EFAULT;
>  }
>  
>