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This flag is only set by one single user: the magical core dumping code that looks up user pages one by one, and then writes them out using their kernel addresses (by using a BVEC_ITER). That actually ends up being a huge problem, because while we do use copy_mc_to_kernel() for this case and it is able to handle the possible machine checks involved, nothing else is really ready to handle the failures caused by the machine check. In particular, as reported by Tong Tiangen, we don't actually support fault_in_iov_iter_readable() on a machine check area. As a result, the usual logic for writing things to a file under a filesystem lock, which involves doing a copy with page faults disabled and then if that fails trying to fault pages in without holding the locks with fault_in_iov_iter_readable() does not work at all. We could decide to always just make the MC copy "succeed" (and filling the destination with zeroes), and that would then create a core dump file that just ignores any machine checks. But honestly, this single special case has been problematic before, and means that all the normal iov_iter code ends up slightly more complex and slower. See for example commit |
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