linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery

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Message-ID: <20210113100009.GA16960@zn.tnic>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:00:09 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:     "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-edac <linux-edac@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user
 recovery

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 08:15:46PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> So I’m sort of at a loss as to what we can do.

I think you guys have veered off into the weeds with this. The current
solution - modulo error messages not destined for humans :) - is not soo
bad, considering the whole MCA trainwreck.

Or am I missing something completely unacceptable?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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