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Date:   Sat, 18 Jun 2022 12:35:35 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@...wei.com>
Cc:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@...wei.com>,
        Guohanjun <guohanjun@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next v5 7/8] arm64: add uaccess to machine check safe

On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 05:27:45PM +0800, Tong Tiangen wrote:
> 
> 
> 在 2022/6/17 17:06, Mark Rutland 写道:
> > On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 06:50:55AM +0000, Tong Tiangen wrote:
> > > If user access fail due to hardware memory error, only the relevant
> > > processes are affected, so killing the user process and isolate the
> > > error page with hardware memory errors is a more reasonable choice
> > > than kernel panic.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@...wei.com>
> > 
> > > ---
> > >   arch/arm64/lib/copy_from_user.S | 8 ++++----
> > >   arch/arm64/lib/copy_to_user.S   | 8 ++++----
> > 
> > All of these changes are to the *kernel* accesses performed as part of copy
> > to/from user, and have nothing to do with userspace, so it does not make sense
> > to mark these as UACCESS.
> 
> You have a point. so there is no need to modify copy_from/to_user.S in this
> patch set.

Cool, thanks. If this patch just has the extable change, that's fine by me.

> > Do we *actually* need to recover from failues on these accesses? Looking at
> > _copy_from_user(), the kernel will immediately follow this up with a memset()
> > to the same address which will be fatal anyway, so this is only punting the
> > failure for a few instructions.
> 
> If recovery success, The task will be killed and there will be no subsequent
> memset().

I don't think that's true.

IIUC per the last patch, in the exception handler we'll apply the fixup then
force a signal. That doesn't kill the task immediately, and we'll return from
the exception handler back into the original context (with the fixup applied).

The structure of copy_from_user() is 

	copy_from_user(to, from, n) {
		_copy_from_user(to, from, n) {
			res = n;
			res = raw_copy_from_user(to, from, n);
			if (res) 
				memset(to + (n - res), 0, res);
		}
	}

So when the fixup is applied and res indicates that the copy terminated early,
there is an unconditinal memset() before the fatal signal is handled in the
return to userspace path.

> > If we really need to recover from certain accesses to kernel memory we should
> > add a new EX_TYPE_KACCESS_ERR_ZERO_MC or similar, but we need a strong
> > rationale as to why that's useful. As things stand I do not beleive it makes
> > sense for copy to/from user specifically.

[...]

> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/extable.c b/arch/arm64/mm/extable.c
> > > index c301dcf6335f..8ca8d9639f9f 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/extable.c
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/extable.c
> > > @@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ bool fixup_exception_mc(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > >   	if (!ex)
> > >   		return false;
> > > -	/*
> > > -	 * This is not complete, More Machine check safe extable type can
> > > -	 * be processed here.
> > > -	 */
> > > +	switch (ex->type) {
> > > +	case EX_TYPE_UACCESS_ERR_ZERO:
> > > +		return ex_handler_uaccess_err_zero(ex, regs);
> > > +	}
> > 
> > This addition specifically makes sense to me, so can you split this into a separate patch?
> 
> According to my understanding of the above, only the modification of
> extable.c is retained.
> 
> So what do you mean which part is made into a separate patch?

As above, if you just retain the extable.c changes, that's fine by me.

Thanks,
Mark.