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Commit 67f22ba7 authored by zhenwei pi's avatar zhenwei pi Committed by akpm
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mm/memory-failure: disable unpoison once hw error happens

Currently unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn) is designed for soft
poison(hwpoison-inject) only.  Since 17fae129, the KPTE gets cleared
on a x86 platform once hardware memory corrupts.

Unpoisoning a hardware corrupted page puts page back buddy only, the
kernel has a chance to access the page with *NOT PRESENT* KPTE.  This
leads BUG during accessing on the corrupted KPTE.

Suggested by David&Naoya, disable unpoison mechanism when a real HW error
happens to avoid BUG like this:

 Unpoison: Software-unpoisoned page 0x61234
 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff888061234000
 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
 PGD 2c01067 P4D 2c01067 PUD 107267063 PMD 10382b063 PTE 800fffff9edcb062
 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 4 PID: 26551 Comm: stress Kdump: loaded Tainted: G   M       OE     5.18.0.bm.1-amd64 #7
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) ...
 RIP: 0010:clea...
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