From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:19:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210113161933.GE16960@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8c4cd08e82884518b607f392523dd70b@intel.com>
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 04:06:09PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Maybe the other difference in approach between Andy and me is whether to
> go for a solution that covers all the corner cases, or just make an incremental
> improvement that allows for recover in some useful subset of remaining fatal
> cases, but still dies in other cases.
Does that mean more core code surgery?
> I'm happy to replace error messages with ones that are more descriptive and
> helpful to humans.
Yap, that: "Multiple copyin" with something more understandable to users...
Thx.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-13 16:20 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
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 [this message]
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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