From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-edac@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:11:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FCB534-9149-437A-971E-F93C009F99C3@amacapital.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210111214452.1826-2-tony.luck@intel.com>
> On Jan 11, 2021, at 1:45 PM, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
>
> Recovery action when get_user() triggers a machine check uses the fixup
> path to make get_user() return -EFAULT. Also queue_task_work() sets up
> so that kill_me_maybe() will be called on return to user mode to send a
> SIGBUS to the current process.
>
> But there are places in the kernel where the code assumes that this
> EFAULT return was simply because of a page fault. The code takes some
> action to fix that, and then retries the access. This results in a second
> machine check.
>
> While processing this second machine check queue_task_work() is called
> again. But since this uses the same callback_head structure that
> was used in the first call, the net result is an entry on the
> current->task_works list that points to itself.
Is this happening in pagefault_disable context or normal sleepable fault context? If the latter, maybe we should reconsider finding a way for the machine check code to do its work inline instead of deferring it.
Yes, I realize this is messy, but maybe it’s not that messy. Conceptually, we just (famous last words) need to arrange for an MCE with IF=1 to switch off the IST stack and run like a normal exception.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-11 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-08 22:22 [PATCH 0/2] Fix infinite machine check loop in futex_wait_setup() Tony Luck
2021-01-08 22:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery Tony Luck
2021-01-08 22:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] futex, x86/mce: Avoid double machine checks Tony Luck
2021-01-08 22:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-08 23:08 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-08 23:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-01-08 23:20 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-11 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix infinite machine check loop in futex_wait_setup() Tony Luck
2021-01-11 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery Tony Luck
2021-01-11 22:11 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2021-01-11 22:20 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-12 17:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-12 17:16 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-12 17:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-12 18:23 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-12 18:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-12 20:52 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-12 22:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-13 1:50 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-13 4:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-13 10:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-13 16:06 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-13 16:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-13 16:32 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-13 17:35 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-14 20:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-14 21:05 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-11 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/mce: Add new return value to get_user() for machine check Tony Luck
2021-01-11 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] futex, x86/mce: Avoid double machine checks Tony Luck
2021-01-14 17:22 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Fix infinite machine check loop in futex_wait_setup() Andy Lutomirski
2021-01-15 0:38 ` [PATCH v3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery Tony Luck
2021-01-15 15:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-15 19:34 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-15 20:51 ` [PATCH v4] " Luck, Tony
2021-01-15 23:23 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-19 10:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-19 23:57 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-20 12:18 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-20 17:17 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-21 21:09 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-25 22:55 ` [PATCH v5] " Luck, Tony
2021-01-26 11:03 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-01-26 22:36 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-28 17:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-02-01 18:58 ` Luck, Tony
2021-02-02 11:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-02-02 16:04 ` Luck, Tony
2021-02-02 21:06 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-02-02 22:12 ` Luck, Tony
2021-01-18 15:39 ` [PATCH v3] " Borislav Petkov
2021-07-06 19:06 [PATCH 0/3] More machine check recovery fixes Tony Luck
2021-08-18 0:29 ` [PATCH v2 " Tony Luck
2021-08-18 0:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery Tony Luck
2021-08-20 17:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-20 18:59 ` Luck, Tony
2021-08-20 19:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-20 20:23 ` Luck, Tony
2021-08-21 4:51 ` Tony Luck
2021-08-21 21:51 ` Al Viro
2021-08-22 14:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-20 20:33 ` Luck, Tony
2021-08-22 14:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-23 15:24 ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-13 9:24 ` Borislav Petkov
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