The patch titled Subject: mm,hwpoison: check mm when killing accessing process has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is mmhwpoison-check-mm-when-killing-accessing-process.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mmhwpoison-check-mm-when-killing-accessing-process.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm,hwpoison: check mm when killing accessing process Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:49:35 +0800 The GHES code calls memory_failure_queue() from IRQ context to queue work into workqueue and schedule it on the current CPU. Then the work is processed in memory_failure_work_func() by kworker and calls memory_failure(). When a page is already poisoned, commit a3f5d80ea401 ("mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address") make memory_failure() call kill_accessing_process() that: - holds mmap locking of current->mm - does pagetable walk to find the error virtual address - and sends SIGBUS to the current process with error info. However, the mm of kworker is not valid, resulting in a null-pointer dereference. So check mm when killing the accessing process. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914064935.7851-1-xueshuai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: a3f5d80ea401 ("mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address") Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mmhwpoison-check-mm-when-killing-accessing-process +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -745,6 +745,9 @@ static int kill_accessing_process(struct }; priv.tk.tsk = p; + if (!p->mm) + return -EFAULT; + mmap_read_lock(p->mm); ret = walk_page_range(p->mm, 0, TASK_SIZE, &hwp_walk_ops, (void *)&priv); @@ -753,6 +756,7 @@ static int kill_accessing_process(struct else ret = 0; mmap_read_unlock(p->mm); + return ret > 0 ? -EHWPOISON : -EFAULT; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from xueshuai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mmhwpoison-check-mm-when-killing-accessing-process.patch