linux-kernel - Re: [tip: x86/boot] x86/boot: Ignore NMIs during very early boot

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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 12:08:07 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org,
	Jun'ichi Nomura <junichi.nomura@....com>,
	Derek Barbosa <debarbos@...hat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [tip: x86/boot] x86/boot: Ignore NMIs during very early boot


* Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 08:59:44AM -0000, tip-bot2 for Jun'ichi Nomura wrote:
> > +void do_boot_nmi_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
> > +{
> > +	/* Empty handler to ignore NMI during early boot */
> 
> It might be good to issue something here to say that a spurious NMI got
> ignored.
> 
> Something ala
> 
> 	error_putstr("Spurious early NMI ignored.\n");
> 
> so that we at least say that we ignored an NMI and not have it disappear
> unnoticed.

That makes sense. Jun'ichi-san, could you please send a patch for this?

Thanks,

	Ingo