Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm, swap: ratelimit bad swap entry reports in get_swap_device()

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 05:48:52PM +0100, Pedro Falcato wrote:
> > Couldn't some of the stuff you drop here (different entries) be similarly valuable?
>
> I think we generally do a terribly lousy job reporting these kinds of
> failures. Would be awesome to log this elsewhere, or possibly send
> something like a SIGBUS to the faulting process, for instance.

That's precisely what the follow-up patch in this series handles.

Patch "[PATCH 3/3] mm: fail the fault on a malformed swap entry instead of
retrying it" propagates VM_FAULT_SIGBUS all the way up, so the
application gets SIGBUS'd instead of retrying (and re-printing this
message).