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Jane Chu 3d7fed4ad8 mm/memory-failure: poison read receives SIGKILL instead of SIGBUS if mmaped more than once
Mmap /dev/dax more than once, then read the poison location using
address from one of the mappings.  The other mappings due to not having
the page mapped in will cause SIGKILLs delivered to the process.
SIGKILL succeeds over SIGBUS, so user process loses the opportunity to
handle the UE.

Although one may add MAP_POPULATE to mmap(2) to work around the issue,
MAP_POPULATE makes mapping 128GB of pmem several magnitudes slower, so
isn't always an option.

Details -

  ndctl inject-error --block=10 --count=1 namespace6.0

  ./read_poison -x dax6.0 -o 5120 -m 2
  mmaped address 0x7f5bb6600000
  mmaped address 0x7f3cf3600000
  doing local read at address 0x7f3cf3601400
  Killed

Console messages in instrumented kernel -

  mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at edbe201400
  Memory failure: tk->addr = 7f5bb6601000
  Memory failure: address edbe201: call dev_pagemap_mapping_shift
  dev_pagemap_mapping_shift: page edbe201: no PUD
  Memory failure: tk->size_shift == 0
  Memory failure: Unable to find user space address edbe201 in read_poison
  Memory failure: tk->addr = 7f3cf3601000
  Memory failure: address edbe201: call dev_pagemap_mapping_shift
  Memory failure: tk->size_shift = 21
  Memory failure: 0xedbe201: forcibly killing read_poison:22434 because of failure to unmap corrupted page
    => to deliver SIGKILL
  Memory failure: 0xedbe201: Killing read_poison:22434 due to hardware memory corruption
    => to deliver SIGBUS

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565112345-28754-3-git-send-email-jane.chu@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.