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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>, Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mm/hwpoison: set PageHWPoison after taking page lock in memory_failure_hugetlb()
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2022 13:30:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220309133010.0f04c2ac4939edbdb35723bb@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220309091449.2753904-1-naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>

On Wed,  9 Mar 2022 18:14:49 +0900 Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev> wrote:

> There is a race condition between memory_failure_hugetlb() and hugetlb
> free/demotion, which causes setting PageHWPoison flag on the wrong page
> (which was a hugetlb when memory_failrue() was called, but was removed
> or demoted when memory_failure_hugetlb() is called).  This results in
> killing wrong processes.  So set PageHWPoison flag with holding page lock,

What are the runtime effects of this?  Do we think a -stable backport
is needed?

Are we missing a reported-by here?  I'm too lazy to hunt down who it was.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-09 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-09  9:14 Naoya Horiguchi
2022-03-09 21:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-03-10  1:15   ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2022-03-09 21:55 ` Yang Shi
2022-03-09 23:59   ` Mike Kravetz
2022-03-10  0:29     ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2022-03-10  0:00   ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2022-03-10  0:30     ` Yang Shi
2022-03-10  6:23       ` Miaohe Lin
2022-03-10 17:50         ` Yang Shi

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