mm, oom_reaper: skip mm structs with mmu notifiers
Andrea has noticed that the oom_reaper doesn't invalidate the range via mmu notifiers (mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end) and that can corrupt the memory of the kvm guest for example. tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly already invokes mmu notifiers but that is not sufficient as per Andrea: "mmu_notifier_invalidate_range cannot be used in replacement of mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end. For KVM mmu_notifier_invalidate_range is a noop and rightfully so. A MMU notifier implementation has to implement either ->invalidate_range method or the invalidate_range_start/end methods, not both. And if you implement invalidate_range_start/end like KVM is forced to do, calling mmu_notifier_invalidate_range in common code is a noop for KVM. For those MMU notifiers that can get away only implementing ->invalidate_range, the ->invalidate_range is implicitly called by mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(). And only those secondary MMUs that share the s...
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