linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] x86/mce: Change to not send SIGBUS error during copy from user

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Date:   Tue,  6 Jul 2021 12:06:18 -0700
From:   Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Ding Hui <dinghui@...gfor.com.cn>,
        naoya.horiguchi@....com, osalvador@...e.de,
        Youquan Song <youquan.song@...el.com>, huangcun@...gfor.com.cn,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] x86/mce: Change to not send SIGBUS error during copy from user

Sending a SIGBUS for a copy from user is not the correct semantic.
System calls should return -EFAULT (or a short count for write(2)).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
index 22791aadc085..dd03971e5ad5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ static void kill_me_maybe(struct callback_head *cb)
 		flags |= MF_MUST_KILL;
 
 	ret = memory_failure(p->mce_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, flags);
-	if (!ret && !(p->mce_kflags & MCE_IN_KERNEL_COPYIN)) {
+	if (!ret) {
 		set_mce_nospec(p->mce_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, p->mce_whole_page);
 		sync_core();
 		return;
@@ -1279,25 +1279,27 @@ static void kill_me_maybe(struct callback_head *cb)
 	if (ret == -EHWPOISON)
 		return;
 
-	if (p->mce_vaddr != (void __user *)-1l) {
-		force_sig_mceerr(BUS_MCEERR_AR, p->mce_vaddr, PAGE_SHIFT);
-	} else {
-		pr_err("Memory error not recovered");
-		kill_me_now(cb);
-	}
+	pr_err("Memory error not recovered");
+	kill_me_now(cb);
+}
+
+static void kill_me_never(struct callback_head *cb)
+{
+	struct task_struct *p = container_of(cb, struct task_struct, mce_kill_me);
+
+	pr_err("Kernel accessed poison in user space at %llx\n", p->mce_addr);
+	if (!memory_failure(p->mce_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, 0))
+		set_mce_nospec(p->mce_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, p->mce_whole_page);
 }
 
-static void queue_task_work(struct mce *m, int kill_current_task)
+static void queue_task_work(struct mce *m, void (*func)(struct callback_head *))
 {
 	current->mce_addr = m->addr;
 	current->mce_kflags = m->kflags;
 	current->mce_ripv = !!(m->mcgstatus & MCG_STATUS_RIPV);
 	current->mce_whole_page = whole_page(m);
 
-	if (kill_current_task)
-		current->mce_kill_me.func = kill_me_now;
-	else
-		current->mce_kill_me.func = kill_me_maybe;
+	current->mce_kill_me.func = func;
 
 	task_work_add(current, &current->mce_kill_me, TWA_RESUME);
 }
@@ -1435,7 +1437,10 @@ noinstr void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		/* If this triggers there is no way to recover. Die hard. */
 		BUG_ON(!on_thread_stack() || !user_mode(regs));
 
-		queue_task_work(&m, kill_current_task);
+		if (kill_current_task)
+			queue_task_work(&m, kill_me_now);
+		else
+			queue_task_work(&m, kill_me_maybe);
 
 	} else {
 		/*
@@ -1453,7 +1458,7 @@ noinstr void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		}
 
 		if (m.kflags & MCE_IN_KERNEL_COPYIN)
-			queue_task_work(&m, kill_current_task);
+			queue_task_work(&m, kill_me_never);
 	}
 out:
 	mce_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS, 0);
-- 
2.29.2