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Naoya Horiguchi ced41d9d6a mm: hwpoison: use do_send_sig_info() instead of force_sig() 
commit 6376360ecb upstream.

Currently memory_failure() is racy against process's exiting, which
results in kernel crash by null pointer dereference.

The root cause is that memory_failure() uses force_sig() to forcibly
kill asynchronous (meaning not in the current context) processes.  As
discussed in thread https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/8/236 years ago for OOM
fixes, this is not a right thing to do.  OOM solves this issue by using
do_send_sig_info() as done in commit d2d393099d ("signal:
oom_kill_task: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()"), so this
patch is suggesting to do the same for hwpoison.  do_send_sig_info()
properly accesses to siglock with lock_task_sighand(), so is free from
the reported race.

I confirmed that the reported bug reproduces with inserting some delay
in kill_procs(), and it never reproduces with this patch.

Note that memory_failure() can send another type of signal using
force_sig_mceerr(), and the reported race shouldn't happen on it because
force_sig_mceerr() is called only for synchronous processes (i.e.
BUS_MCEERR_AR happens only when some process accesses to the corrupted
memory.)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190116093046.GA29835@hori1.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reported-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-06 17:30:15 +01:00
arch arm64: hibernate: Clean the __hyp_text to PoC after resume 2019-02-06 17:30:12 +01:00
block block: use rcu_work instead of call_rcu to avoid sleep in softirq 2019-01-22 21:40:35 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: ecc - regularize scalar for scalar multiplication 2019-01-26 09:32:35 +01:00
Documentation mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps 2019-01-26 09:32:44 +01:00
drivers mmc: sdhci-iproc: handle mmc_of_parse() errors during probe 2019-02-06 17:30:14 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs btrfs: On error always free subvol_name in btrfs_mount 2019-02-06 17:30:14 +01:00
include oom, oom_reaper: do not enqueue same task twice 2019-02-06 17:30:14 +01:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-22 21:40:34 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel kernel/exit.c: release ptraced tasks before zap_pid_ns_processes 2019-02-06 17:30:14 +01:00
lib fix int_sqrt64() for very large numbers 2019-01-22 21:40:34 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm mm: hwpoison: use do_send_sig_info() instead of force_sig() 2019-02-06 17:30:15 +01:00
net sctp: set flow sport from saddr only when it's 0 2019-02-06 17:30:10 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: fix: error handling regarding kprobe_events 2019-01-26 09:32:35 +01:00
scripts kconfig: fix memory leak when EOF is encountered in quotation 2019-01-26 09:32:39 +01:00
security selinux: always allow mounting submounts 2019-01-26 09:32:36 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek - Fixed hp_pin no value 2019-02-06 17:30:13 +01:00
tools selftests/seccomp: Enhance per-arch ptrace syscall skip tests 2019-02-06 17:30:11 +01:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Fix VMID alloc race by reverting to lock-less 2019-01-16 22:04:37 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch maintainer 2018-12-01 09:37:25 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.19 2019-01-31 08:14:42 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

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
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.