linux-kernel - [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mce: Fix MCE severity messages

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Message-ID: <tip-17fea54bf0ab34fa09a06bbde2f58ed7bbdf9299@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 May 2015 02:11:43 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Borislav Petkov <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
	peterz@...radead.org, tony.luck@...el.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, denc716@...il.com, bp@...e.de,
	tglx@...utronix.de, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/mce: Fix MCE severity messages

Commit-ID:  17fea54bf0ab34fa09a06bbde2f58ed7bbdf9299
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/17fea54bf0ab34fa09a06bbde2f58ed7bbdf9299
Author:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
AuthorDate: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:07:17 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:31:22 +0200

x86/mce: Fix MCE severity messages

Derek noticed that a critical MCE gets reported with the wrong
error type description:

  [Hardware Error]: CPU 34: Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank 9: f200003f000100b0
  [Hardware Error]: RIP !INEXACT! 10:<ffffffff812e14c1> {intel_idle+0xb1/0x170}
  [Hardware Error]: TSC 49587b8e321cb
  [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:306e4 TIME 1431561296 SOCKET 1 APIC 29
  [Hardware Error]: Some CPUs didn't answer in synchronization
  [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Invalid
				   ^^^^^^^

The last line with 'Invalid' should have printed the high level
MCE error type description we get from mce_severity, i.e.
something like:

  [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Action required: data load error in a user process

this happens due to the fact that mce_no_way_out() iterates over
all MCA banks and possibly overwrites the @msg argument which is
used in the panic printing later.

Change behavior to take the message of only and the (last)
critical MCE it detects.

Reported-by: Derek <denc716@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431936437-25286-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
index e535533..20190bd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -708,6 +708,7 @@ static int mce_no_way_out(struct mce *m, char **msg, unsigned long *validp,
 			  struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	int i, ret = 0;
+	char *tmp;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < mca_cfg.banks; i++) {
 		m->status = mce_rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCx_STATUS(i));
@@ -716,9 +717,11 @@ static int mce_no_way_out(struct mce *m, char **msg, unsigned long *validp,
 			if (quirk_no_way_out)
 				quirk_no_way_out(i, m, regs);
 		}
-		if (mce_severity(m, mca_cfg.tolerant, msg, true) >=
-		    MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY)
+
+		if (mce_severity(m, mca_cfg.tolerant, &tmp, true) >= MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY) {
+			*msg = tmp;
 			ret = 1;
+		}
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
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