From: Hugh Dickins Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:59:04 +0000 (-0800) Subject: mm: sigbus instead of abusing oom X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33-rc1~222 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d99be1a8ecf377c2c9b3372d36411ad6547bbd4c;p=pandora-kernel.git mm: sigbus instead of abusing oom When do_nonlinear_fault() realizes that the page table must have been corrupted for it to have been called, it does print_bad_pte() and returns ... VM_FAULT_OOM, which is hard to understand. It made some sense when I did it for 2.6.15, when do_page_fault() just killed the current process; but nowadays it lets the OOM killer decide who to kill - so page table corruption in one process would be liable to kill another. Change it to return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS instead: that doesn't guarantee that the process will be killed, but is good enough for such a rare abnormality, accompanied as it is by the "BUG: Bad page map" message. And recent HWPOISON work has copied that code into do_swap_page(), when it finds an impossible swap entry: fix that to VM_FAULT_SIGBUS too. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Izik Eidus Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Nick Piggin Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Andi Kleen Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed