Revert "mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump."
authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Sun, 23 May 2021 00:41:46 +0000 (17:41 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 23 May 2021 01:09:07 +0000 (15:09 -1000)
commitf10628d2f613195132532e0fbda439eeed8d12a2
treef5b5629a4dbed72a7564273c643b5c5d560ad15c
parentf9f74dc218c3cfdf0b7f9a95ddae81a081bdb79d
Revert "mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump."

While reviewing [1] I came across commit d3378e86d182 ("mm/gup: check
page posion status for coredump.") and noticed that this patch is broken
in two ways.  First it doesn't really prevent hwpoison pages from being
dumped because hwpoison pages can be marked asynchornously at any time
after the check.  Secondly, and more importantly, the patch introduces a
ref count leak because get_dump_page takes a reference on the page which
is not released.

It also seems that the patch was merged incorrectly because there were
follow up changes not included as well as discussions on how to address
the underlying problem [2]

Therefore revert the original patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210429122519.15183-4-david@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57ac524c-b49a-99ec-c1e4-ef5027bfb61b@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505135407.31590-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: d3378e86d182 ("mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump.")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/gup.c
mm/internal.h