mm/memory-failure: prioritize prctl(PR_MCE_KILL) over vm.memory_failu…

…re_early_kill

Patch series "hwpoison: fixes signaling on memory error"

This is a small patchset to solve issues in memory error handler to send
SIGBUS to proper process/thread as expected in configuration.  Please
see descriptions in individual patches for more details.

This patch (of 2):

Early-kill policy is controlled from two types of settings, one is
per-process setting prctl(PR_MCE_KILL) and the other is system-wide
setting vm.memory_failure_early_kill.  Users expect per-process setting
to override system-wide setting as many other settings do, but
early-kill setting doesn't work as such.

For example, if a system configures vm.memory_failure_early_kill to 1
(enabled), a process receives SIGBUS even if it's configured to
explicitly disable PF_MCE_KILL by prctl().  That's not desirable for
applications with their own policies.

This patch is suggesting to change the priority of these two types of
settings, by checking sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill only when a given
process has the default kill policy.

Note that this patch is solving a thread choice issue too.

Originally, collect_procs() always chooses the main thread when
vm.memory_failure_early_kill is 1, even if the process has a dedicated
thread for memory error handling.  SIGBUS should be sent to the
dedicated thread if early-kill is enabled via
vm.memory_failure_early_kill as we are doing for PR_MCE_KILL_EARLY
processes.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

mm/memory-failure.c

@@ -402,9 +402,15 @@ static struct task_struct *find_early_kill_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	struct task_struct *t;
 
-	for_each_thread(tsk, t)
-		if ((t->flags & PF_MCE_PROCESS) && (t->flags & PF_MCE_EARLY))
-			return t;
+	for_each_thread(tsk, t) {
+		if (t->flags & PF_MCE_PROCESS) {
+			if (t->flags & PF_MCE_EARLY)
+				return t;
+		} else {
+			if (sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill)
+				return t;
+		}
+	}
 	return NULL;
 }
 
@@ -417,17 +423,11 @@ static struct task_struct *find_early_kill_thread(struct task_struct *tsk)
 static struct task_struct *task_early_kill(struct task_struct *tsk,
 					   int force_early)
 {
-	struct task_struct *t;
 	if (!tsk->mm)
 		return NULL;
 	if (force_early)
 		return tsk;
-	t = find_early_kill_thread(tsk);
-	if (t)
-		return t;
-	if (sysctl_memory_failure_early_kill)
-		return tsk;
-	return NULL;
+	return find_early_kill_thread(tsk);
 }
 
 /*