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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 v6] mm/hwpoison: fix race between hugetlb free/demotion and memory_failure_hugetlb()
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 11:53:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220404115333.8cf80b9d3a7a55993ed60c57@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220404092131.751733-1-naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>

On Mon,  4 Apr 2022 18:21:31 +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.
> The one simple result is that wrong processes can be killed, but another
> (more serious) one is that the actual error is left unhandled, so no one
> prevents later access to it, and that might lead to more serious results
> like consuming corrupted data.

Should this fix be backported into stable kernels?


  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-04 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-04  9:21 Naoya Horiguchi
2022-04-04 18:53 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-04-05  1:45   ` HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
2022-04-05  1:51     ` Andrew Morton

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