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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-07-11 10:20:47 -0700
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-07-11 10:20:47 -0700
commit6751ed65dc6642af64f7b8a440a75563c8aab7ae (patch)
tree8736d4c2b3aa00c6a4f39d2e6cba4805720c2874 /arch/x86/kernel/cpu
parent6887a4131da3adaab011613776d865f4bcfb5678 (diff)
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x86/mce: Fix siginfo_t->si_addr value for non-recoverable memory faults
In commit dad1743e5993f1 ("x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine check recovery if it is safe") we fixed mce_notify_process() to force a signal to the current process if it was not restartable (RIPV bit not set in MCG_STATUS). But doing it here means that the process doesn't get told the virtual address of the fault via siginfo_t->si_addr. This would prevent application level recovery from the fault. Make a new MF_MUST_KILL flag bit for memory_failure() et al. to use so that we will provide the right information with the signal. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.4+
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index da27c5d2168a..c46ed494f002 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -1186,6 +1186,7 @@ void mce_notify_process(void)
{
unsigned long pfn;
struct mce_info *mi = mce_find_info();
+ int flags = MF_ACTION_REQUIRED;
if (!mi)
mce_panic("Lost physical address for unconsumed uncorrectable error", NULL, NULL);
@@ -1200,8 +1201,9 @@ void mce_notify_process(void)
* doomed. We still need to mark the page as poisoned and alert any
* other users of the page.
*/
- if (memory_failure(pfn, MCE_VECTOR, MF_ACTION_REQUIRED) < 0 ||
- mi->restartable == 0) {
+ if (!mi->restartable)
+ flags |= MF_MUST_KILL;
+ if (memory_failure(pfn, MCE_VECTOR, flags) < 0) {
pr_err("Memory error not recovered");
force_sig(SIGBUS, current);
}
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