[merged mm-stable] mm-memory-failure-report-mf_msg_kernel-for-unrecoverable-kernel-pages.patch removed from -mm tree

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:22:38 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.mm-commits
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/memory-failure: report MF_MSG_KERNEL for unrecoverable kernel pages
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-memory-failure-report-mf_msg_kernel-for-unrecoverable-kernel-pages.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Breno Leitao <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/memory-failure: report MF_MSG_KERNEL for unrecoverable kernel pages
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:46:06 -0700

The previous patch teaches get_any_page() to return -ENOTRECOVERABLE for
stable unhandlable kernel pages (PG_reserved, slab, page tables,
large-kmalloc).  memory_failure() still folds every negative return into
MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON, so callers that want to react to the unrecoverable
cases (a panic option, smarter logging) cannot tell them apart from
transient page-allocator races.

Turn the post-call branch into a switch over the get_hwpoison_page()
return code: map -ENOTRECOVERABLE to MF_MSG_KERNEL and any other negative
return to MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON.  case 0 keeps the existing free-buddy /
kernel-high-order handling and case 1 falls through to the rest of
memory_failure() unchanged.

The MF_MSG_KERNEL label and tracepoint string are kept as "reserved kernel
page" to avoid breaking userspace tools that match on those literals; the
enum value still adequately tags the failure even though it now also
covers slab, page tables and large-kmalloc pages.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Lance Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 mm/memory-failure.c |   17 +++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-memory-failure-report-mf_msg_kernel-for-unrecoverable-kernel-pages
+++ a/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -2437,7 +2437,8 @@ try_again:
 	 * that may make page_ref_freeze()/page_ref_unfreeze() mismatch.
 	 */
 	res = get_hwpoison_page(p, flags);
-	if (!res) {
+	switch (res) {
+	case 0:
 		if (is_free_buddy_page(p)) {
 			if (take_page_off_buddy(p)) {
 				page_ref_inc(p);
@@ -2456,7 +2457,19 @@ try_again:
 			res = action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_KERNEL_HIGH_ORDER, MF_IGNORED);
 		}
 		goto unlock_mutex;
-	} else if (res < 0) {
+	case 1:
+		/* Got a refcount on a handlable page. */
+		break;
+	case -ENOTRECOVERABLE:
+		/*
+		 * Stable unhandlable kernel-owned page (PG_reserved,
+		 * slab, page tables, large-kmalloc).
+		 * No recovery possible.
+		 */
+		res = action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_KERNEL, MF_IGNORED);
+		goto unlock_mutex;
+	default:
+		/* Transient lifecycle race with the page allocator. */
 		res = action_result(pfn, MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON, MF_IGNORED);
 		goto unlock_mutex;
 	}
_

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

mm-migrate-report-rcu-tasks-quiescent-states-in-migrate_pages_batch.patch
mm-kmemleak-report-leaks-only-after-n-consecutive-unreferenced-scans.patch
mm-kmemleak-factor-leak-confirmation-into-a-helper.patch
selftests-mm-test-kmemleaks-n-consecutive-scan-leak-confirmation.patch
radix-tree-fix-kmemleak-false-positives-on-tree-head-reassignment.patch
mm-kmemleak-report-rcu-tasks-quiescent-states-during-the-scan.patch
mm-kmemleak-default-min_unref_scans-to-2-for-verbose-auto-scan.patch
documentation-kmemleak-document-the-conditional-min_unref_scans-default.patch
selftests-mm-kmemleak-drop-stale-min_unref_scans-default-from-comments.patch