linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/31] x86: MCE: Fix EIPV behaviour with !PCC

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2009 01:54:05 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org
Cc:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 03/31] x86: MCE: Fix EIPV behaviour with !PCC

From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>

Impact: Spec compliance

When tolerant == 0, system should go panic instead of send SIGBUS even
for a MCE with EPIV && !PCC on user space.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index 3f158d7..e1271ac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
 		 * force_sig() takes an awful lot of locks and has a slight
 		 * risk of deadlocking.
 		 */
-		if (user_space) {
+		if (user_space && tolerant > 0) {
 			force_sig(SIGBUS, current);
 		} else if (panic_on_oops || tolerant < 2) {
 			mce_panic("Uncorrected machine check",
-- 
1.6.0.2

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