[merged mm-stable] mm-memory-failure-add-panic-option-for-unrecoverable-pages.patch removed from -mm tree
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:22:40 -0700
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The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-memory-failure-add-panic-option-for-unrecoverable-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: add panic option for unrecoverable pages
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:46:07 -0700
Add a sysctl panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure (disabled by default)
that triggers a kernel panic when memory_failure() encounters pages that
cannot be recovered. This provides a clean crash with useful debug
information rather than allowing silent data corruption or a delayed crash
at an unrelated code path.
Panic eligibility is intentionally narrow: only MF_MSG_KERNEL with result
== MF_IGNORED panics. After the previous patch, MF_MSG_KERNEL covers
PG_reserved pages and the kernel-owned pages promoted from
get_hwpoison_page() via -ENOTRECOVERABLE (slab, page tables,
large-kmalloc).
All other action types are excluded:
- MF_MSG_GET_HWPOISON and MF_MSG_KERNEL_HIGH_ORDER can be reached by
transient refcount races with the page allocator (an in-flight buddy
allocation has refcount 0 and is no longer on the buddy free list,
briefly), and panicking on them would risk killing the box for what
is actually a recoverable userspace page.
- MF_MSG_UNKNOWN means identify_page_state() could not classify the
page; that is precisely the wrong basis for a panic decision.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Miaohe Lin <[email protected]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[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 | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-memory-failure-add-panic-option-for-unrecoverable-pages
+++ a/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ static int sysctl_memory_failure_recover
static int sysctl_enable_soft_offline __read_mostly = 1;
+static int sysctl_panic_on_unrecoverable_mf __read_mostly;
+
atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages __read_mostly = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
static bool hw_memory_failure __read_mostly;
@@ -156,6 +158,15 @@ static const struct ctl_table memory_fai
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
.extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
.extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE,
+ },
+ {
+ .procname = "panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure",
+ .data = &sysctl_panic_on_unrecoverable_mf,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_panic_on_unrecoverable_mf),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_minmax,
+ .extra1 = SYSCTL_ZERO,
+ .extra2 = SYSCTL_ONE,
}
};
@@ -1256,6 +1267,15 @@ static void update_per_node_mf_stats(uns
++mf_stats->total;
}
+static bool panic_on_unrecoverable_mf(enum mf_action_page_type type,
+ enum mf_result result)
+{
+ if (!sysctl_panic_on_unrecoverable_mf)
+ return false;
+
+ return type == MF_MSG_KERNEL && result == MF_IGNORED;
+}
+
/*
* "Dirty/Clean" indication is not 100% accurate due to the possibility of
* setting PG_dirty outside page lock. See also comment above set_page_dirty().
@@ -1273,6 +1293,9 @@ static int action_result(unsigned long p
pr_err("%#lx: recovery action for %s: %s\n",
pfn, action_page_types[type], action_name[result]);
+ if (panic_on_unrecoverable_mf(type, result))
+ panic("Memory failure: %#lx: unrecoverable page", pfn);
+
return (result == MF_RECOVERED || result == MF_DELAYED) ? 0 : -EBUSY;
}
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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