From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jue Wang <juew@google.com>, Ding Hui <dinghui@sangfor.com.cn>,
naoya.horiguchi@nec.com, osalvador@suse.de,
Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>,
huangcun@sangfor.com.cn, x86@kernel.org,
linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 16:36:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YSJg/tCG5/YRSZIQ@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210820202346.GA1623796@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 01:23:46PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote:
> To recover we need to have some other place to jump to (besides the
> normal extable error return ... which isn't working if we find ourselves
> in this situation) when we hit a fault covered by an extable entry. And
> also know how many machine checks is "normal" before taking the other path.
Hohumm, we're on the same page here.
...
> Bottom line is that I don't think this panic can actually happen unless
> there is some buggy kernel code that retries get_user() or copyin()
> indefinitely.
You know how such statements of "well, this should not really happen in
practice" get disproved by, well, practice. :-)
I guess we'll see anyway what actually happens in practice.
> Probably the same for the two different addresses case ... though I'm
> not 100% confident about that. There could be some ioctl() that peeks
> at two parts of a passed in structure, and the user might pass in a
> structure that spans across a page boundary with both pages poisoned.
> But that would only hit if the driver code ignored the failure of the
> first get_user() and blindly tried the second. So I'd count that as a
> critically bad driver bug.
Right.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-22 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-06 19:06 [PATCH 0/3] More machine check recovery fixes Tony Luck
2021-07-06 19:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] x86/mce: Change to not send SIGBUS error during copy from user Tony Luck
2021-07-06 19:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery Tony Luck
2021-07-06 19:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86/mce: Drop copyin special case for #MC Tony Luck
2021-08-18 0:29 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] More machine check recovery fixes 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 [this message]
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
2021-09-13 21:52 ` [PATCH v3] " Luck, Tony
2021-09-14 8:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-08-18 0:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/mce: Change to not send SIGBUS error during copy from user Tony Luck
2021-09-21 7:52 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2021-08-18 0:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/mce: Drop copyin special case for #MC Tony Luck
2021-09-20 9:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-20 16:18 ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-20 16:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2021-09-20 16:43 ` Luck, Tony
2021-09-21 7:52 ` [tip: ras/core] " tip-bot2 for Tony Luck
2021-08-18 16:14 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] More machine check recovery fixes Luck, Tony
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-01-08 22:22 [PATCH 0/2] Fix infinite machine check loop in futex_wait_setup() Tony Luck
2021-01-11 21:44 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " 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
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
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