linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM, Fix QEMU-KVM is killed by guest SRAO MCE

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Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:25:41 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"masbock@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <masbock@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM, Fix QEMU-KVM is killed by guest SRAO MCE

On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 15:47 +0800, Avi Kivity wrote:
> (please copy kvm@...r.kernel.org on kvm patches)

Sorry, will do that for all future patches.

> On 04/27/2010 10:04 AM, Huang Ying wrote:
> >
> > +static void kvm_send_hwpoison_signal(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn)
> > +{
> > +	char buf[1];
> > +	void __user *hva;
> > +	int r;
> > +
> > +	/* Touch the page, so send SIGBUS */
> > +	hva = (void __user *)gfn_to_hva(kvm, gfn);
> > +	r = copy_from_user(buf, hva, 1);
> >    
> 
> No error check?  What will a copy_from_user() of poisoned page expected 
> to return?
> 
> Best to return -EFAULT on failure for consistency.

Just want to use the side effect of copy_from_user, SIGBUS will be sent
to current process because the page touched is marked as poisoned. That
is, failure is expected, so the return value is not checked.

> > +}
> > +
> >   static int nonpaging_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t v, int write, gfn_t gfn)
> >   {
> >   	int r;
> > @@ -1997,7 +2009,11 @@ static int nonpaging_map(struct kvm_vcpu
> >   	/* mmio */
> >   	if (is_error_pfn(pfn)) {
> >   		kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
> > -		return 1;
> > +		if (is_hwpoison_pfn(pfn)) {
> > +			kvm_send_hwpoison_signal(vcpu->kvm, gfn);
> > +			return 0;
> > +		} else
> > +			return 1;
> >   	}
> >    
> 
> This is duplicated several times.  Please introduce a kvm_handle_bad_page():
> 
>      if (is_error_pfn(pfn))
>          return kvm_handle_bad_page(vcpu->kvm, gfn, pfn);

OK. Will do that.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


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