linux-kernel - Re: segfaults of processes while being killed after commit "mm: make the page fault mmap locking killable"

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Message-ID: <1eb5c9ca-0e05-7aab-c60e-33cc0d8a9323@proxmox.com>
Date:   Thu, 27 Jul 2023 09:57:58 +0200
From:   Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@...xmox.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@...xmox.com>,
        Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@...xmox.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: segfaults of processes while being killed after commit "mm: make
 the page fault mmap locking killable"

Am 26.07.23 um 19:59 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> 
> It's commit 5f0bc0b042fc ("mm: suppress mm fault logging if fatal
> signal already pending") in my tree now.
> 
> And because it's a bit different from what you already tested, it
> would be lovely to just get a confirmation that I didn't screw
> anything up when I decided I needed to make a fix that covers more
> than just x86.
> 
I can confirm this still avoids the misleading logging for me :)

Thank you for the fix!

Best Regards,
Fiona