linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] futex, x86/mce: Avoid double machine checks

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Date:   Fri, 8 Jan 2021 23:47:15 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] futex, x86/mce: Avoid double machine checks

On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 02:22:51PM -0800, Tony Luck wrote:
> futex_wait_setup() first tries to read the user value with page faults
> disabled (because it holds a lock, and so cannot sleep). If that read
> fails it drops the lock and tries again.
> 
> But there are now two reasons why the user space read can fail. Either:
> 1) legacy case of a page fault, in which case it is reasonable to retry
> 2) machine check on the user address, bad idea to re-read
> 
> Add some infrastructure to differentiate these cases.

> --- a/kernel/futex.c
> +++ b/kernel/futex.c
> @@ -2658,6 +2658,9 @@ static int futex_wait_setup(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 val, unsigned int flags,
>  	if (ret) {
>  		queue_unlock(*hb);
>  
> +		if (arch_memory_failure(uaddr))
> +			return ret;
> +
>  		ret = get_user(uval, uaddr);
>  		if (ret)
>  			return ret;


I think this is horrid; why can't we have it return something different
then -EFAULT instead?