linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v15 22/23] x86/mce: Improve error log of kernel space TDX #MC due to erratum

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Date:   Tue, 5 Dec 2023 20:56:37 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v15 22/23] x86/mce: Improve error log of kernel space TDX
 #MC due to erratum

On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 07:41:41PM +0000, Huang, Kai wrote:
> -static const char *mce_memory_info(struct mce *m)
> +static const char *mce_dump_aux_info(struct mce *m)
>  {
> -       if (!m || !mce_is_memory_error(m) || !mce_usable_address(m))
> -               return NULL;
> -
>         /*
> -        * Certain initial generations of TDX-capable CPUs have an
> -        * erratum.  A kernel non-temporal partial write to TDX private
> -        * memory poisons that memory, and a subsequent read of that
> -        * memory triggers #MC.
> -        *
> -        * However such #MC caused by software cannot be distinguished
> -        * from the real hardware #MC.  Just print additional message
> -        * to show such #MC may be result of the CPU erratum.
> +        * Confidential computing platforms such as TDX platforms
> +        * may occur MCE due to incorrect access to confidential
> +        * memory.  Print additional information for such error.
>          */
> -       if (!boot_cpu_has_bug(X86_BUG_TDX_PW_MCE))
> +       if (!m || !mce_is_memory_error(m) || !mce_usable_address(m))
>                 return NULL;

What's the point of doing this on !TDX? None.

> -       return !tdx_is_private_mem(m->addr) ? NULL :
> -               "TDX private memory error. Possible kernel bug.";
> +       if (platform_tdx_enabled())

So is this the "host is TDX" check?

Not a X86_FEATURE flag but something homegrown. And Kirill is trying to
switch the CC_ATTRs to X86_FEATURE_ flags for SEV but here you guys are
using something homegrown.

why not a X86_FEATURE_ flag?

The CC_ATTR things are for guests, I guess, but the host feature checks
should be X86_FEATURE_ flags things.

Hmmm.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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