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authorHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>2009-12-14 17:59:04 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-18 14:05:51 -0800
commit1c723eb018de64d2159e9ce66ec6df0d1798e1e3 (patch)
tree1bec61993d779bc950378c8e94eaf954a1fa6fee /mm
parentac34851f4dac996125b1cf7c5acdb14310b0f525 (diff)
mm: sigbus instead of abusing oom
commit d99be1a8ecf377c2c9b3372d36411ad6547bbd4c upstream. When do_nonlinear_fault() realizes that the page table must have been corrupted for it to have been called, it does print_bad_pte() and returns ... VM_FAULT_OOM, which is hard to understand. It made some sense when I did it for 2.6.15, when do_page_fault() just killed the current process; but nowadays it lets the OOM killer decide who to kill - so page table corruption in one process would be liable to kill another. Change it to return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS instead: that doesn't guarantee that the process will be killed, but is good enough for such a rare abnormality, accompanied as it is by the "BUG: Bad page map" message. And recent HWPOISON work has copied that code into do_swap_page(), when it finds an impossible swap entry: fix that to VM_FAULT_SIGBUS too. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 6ab19dd4a199..4e5945588c73 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2514,7 +2514,7 @@ static int do_swap_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
ret = VM_FAULT_HWPOISON;
} else {
print_bad_pte(vma, address, orig_pte, NULL);
- ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
+ ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
}
goto out;
}
@@ -2910,7 +2910,7 @@ static int do_nonlinear_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* Page table corrupted: show pte and kill process.
*/
print_bad_pte(vma, address, orig_pte, NULL);
- return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+ return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
}
pgoff = pte_to_pgoff(orig_pte);