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Revert "mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump."
While reviewing [1] I came across commit d3378e8 ("mm/gup: check
page posion status for coredump.") and noticed that this patch is broken
in two ways. First it doesn't really prevent hwpoison pages from being
dumped because hwpoison pages can be marked asynchornously at any time
after the check. Secondly, and more importantly, the patch introduces a
ref count leak because get_dump_page takes a reference on the page which
is not released.
It also seems that the patch was merged incorrectly because there were
follow up changes not included as well as discussions on how to address
the underlying problem [2]
Therefore revert the original patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [1]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: d3378e8 ("mm/gup: check page posion status for coredump.")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Cc: Aili Yao <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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