linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access fails without !panic_on

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Message-ID: <CALCETrWxSBwwFTFsRoR_9AVBoC0iJ1pdWwOq_cnFf3NHUpG4QA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:48:47 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
	xen-devel <Xen-devel@...ts.xen.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] x86/msr: Carry on after a non-"safe" MSR access
 fails without !panic_on_oops

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>>
>> The code in my queue is, literally:
>>
>> bool ex_handler_rdmsr_unsafe(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
>>                  struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
>> {
>>     WARN_ONCE(1, "unchecked MSR access error: RDMSR from 0x%x",
>>           (unsigned int)regs->cx);
>>
>>     /* Pretend that the read succeeded and returned 0. */
>>     regs->ip = ex_fixup_addr(fixup);
>>     regs->ax = 0;
>>     regs->dx = 0;
>>     return true;
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(ex_handler_rdmsr_unsafe);
>
> I guess I can live with this, as long as we also extend the
> early-fault handling to work with the special exception handlers.

OK, will do.  I need to rewrork the early IDT code a bit so it
generates a real pt_regs layout, but that's arguably a cleanup anyway.

--Andy