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From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
To: Jue Wang <juew@google.com>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"dinghui@sangfor.com.cn" <dinghui@sangfor.com.cn>,
	"huangcun@sangfor.com.cn" <huangcun@sangfor.com.cn>,
	"linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)" <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>,
	"Oscar Salvador" <osalvador@suse.de>, x86 <x86@kernel.org>,
	"Song, Youquan" <youquan.song@intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2021 20:43:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc4d994b02f643d480647edc4f2a7a29@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcxDJ6qnrkuckxm6KkoONZZh5Q-H3-CkFiWq627p5OF3GKJ4Q@mail.gmail.com>

> After cherry picking patch 1 & 2, I saw the following with 2 UC errors injected
> into the user space buffer passed into write(2), as expected:
>
> [  287.994754] Kernel panic - not syncing: Machine checks to different
> user pages

Interesting.  What are the offsets of the two injected errors in your test (both
w.r.t. the start of the buffer, and within a page).

> The kernel tested with has its x86/mce and mm/memory-failure aligned with
> upstream till around 2020/11.
>
> Is there any other patch that I have missed to the write syscall etc?

There is a long series of patches from Al Viro to lib/iov_iter.c that are maybe
also relevent in making the kernel copy from user stop at the first poison
address in the buffer.

-Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-31 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-31  6:30 [PATCH 2/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery Jue Wang
2021-07-31 20:43 ` Luck, Tony [this message]
2021-08-02 15:29   ` Jue Wang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-07-22 13:54 Jue Wang
2021-07-22 15:19 ` Luck, Tony
2021-07-22 23:30   ` Jue Wang
2021-07-23  0:14     ` Luck, Tony
2021-07-23  3:47       ` Jue Wang
2021-07-23  4:01         ` Luck, Tony
2021-07-23  4:16           ` Jue Wang
2021-07-23 14:47             ` Luck, Tony
2021-07-06 19:06 [PATCH 0/3] More machine check recovery fixes Tony Luck
2021-07-06 19:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery Tony Luck

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