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Commit a3f5d80e authored by Naoya Horiguchi's avatar Naoya Horiguchi Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address

Now an action required MCE in already hwpoisoned address surely sends a
SIGBUS to current process, but the SIGBUS doesn't convey error virtual
address.  That's not optimal for hwpoison-aware applications.

To fix the issue, make memory_failure() call kill_accessing_process(),
that does pagetable walk to find the error virtual address.  It could find
multiple virtual addresses for the same error page, and it seems hard to
tell which virtual address is correct one.  But that's rare and sending
incorrect virtual address could be better than no address.  So let's
report the first found virtual address for now.

[naoya.horiguchi@nec.com: fix walk_page_range() return]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210603051055.GA244241@hori.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210521030156.2612074-4-nao.horiguchi@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Jue Wang <juew@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 203c06ee
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