Re: [PATCH v5] mm/gup: check page hwposion status for coredump.

Matthew Wilcox
2021-03-31T06:09:44Z

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:52:59AM +0000, HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也) wrote:
> If we successfully unmapped but failed in truncate_error_page() for example,
> the processes mapping the page would get -EFAULT as expected. But even in
> this case, other processes could reach the error page via page cache and
> __get_user_pages_locked() for them could return the hwpoisoned page.

How would that happen? We check PageHWPoison before inserting a page
into the page tables. See, eg, filemap_map_pages() and __do_fault().