This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm/memory-failure.c-failure: send right signal code to correct thread

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-memory-failure.c-failure-send-right-signal-code-to-correct-thread.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From a70ffcac741d31a406c1d2b832ae43d658e7e1cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:10:59 -0700
Subject: mm/memory-failure.c-failure: send right signal code to correct thread

From: Tony Luck <[email protected]>

commit a70ffcac741d31a406c1d2b832ae43d658e7e1cf upstream.

When a thread in a multi-threaded application hits a machine check because
of an uncorrectable error in memory - we want to send the SIGBUS with
si.si_code = BUS_MCEERR_AR to that thread.  Currently we fail to do that
if the active thread is not the primary thread in the process.
collect_procs() just finds primary threads and this test:

        if ((flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED) && t == current) {

will see that the thread we found isn't the current thread and so send a
si.si_code = BUS_MCEERR_AO to the primary (and nothing to the active
thread at this time).

We can fix this by checking whether "current" shares the same mm with the
process that collect_procs() said owned the page.  If so, we send the
SIGBUS to current (with code BUS_MCEERR_AR).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Otto Bruggeman <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Chen Gong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 mm/memory-failure.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -208,9 +208,9 @@ static int kill_proc(struct task_struct
 #endif
        si.si_addr_lsb = compound_order(compound_head(page)) + PAGE_SHIFT;
 
-       if ((flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED) && t == current) {
+       if ((flags & MF_ACTION_REQUIRED) && t->mm == current->mm) {
                si.si_code = BUS_MCEERR_AR;
-               ret = force_sig_info(SIGBUS, &si, t);
+               ret = force_sig_info(SIGBUS, &si, current);
        } else {
                /*
                 * Don't use force here, it's convenient if the signal


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.14/mm-memory-failure.c-failure-send-right-signal-code-to-correct-thread.patch
queue-3.14/mm-memory-failure.c-don-t-let-collect_procs-skip-over-processes-for-mf_action_required.patch
queue-3.14/hugetlb-restrict-hugepage_migration_support-to-x86_64.patch
queue-3.14/mm-memory-failure.c-support-use-of-a-dedicated-thread-to-handle-sigbus-bus_mceerr_ao.patch
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