linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 1/3] ACPI: APEI: send SIGBUS to current task if synchronous memory error not recovered

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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:25:28 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: rafael@...nel.org, wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com, tanxiaofei@...wei.com,
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	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 1/3] ACPI: APEI: send SIGBUS to current task if
 synchronous memory error not recovered

On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 04:01:42PM +0800, Shuai Xue wrote:
> Synchronous error was detected as a result of user-space process accessing
> a 2-bit uncorrected error. The CPU will take a synchronous error exception
> such as Synchronous External Abort (SEA) on Arm64. The kernel will queue a
> memory_failure() work which poisons the related page, unmaps the page, and
> then sends a SIGBUS to the process, so that a system wide panic can be
> avoided.
> 
> However, no memory_failure() work will be queued when abnormal synchronous
> errors occur. These errors can include situations such as invalid PA,
> unexpected severity, no memory failure config support, invalid GUID
> section, etc. In such case, the user-space process will trigger SEA again.
> This loop can potentially exceed the platform firmware threshold or even
> trigger a kernel hard lockup, leading to a system reboot.
> 
> Fix it by performing a force kill if no memory_failure() work is queued
> for synchronous errors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> index 7b7c605166e0..0892550732d4 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> @@ -806,6 +806,15 @@ static bool ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * If no memory failure work is queued for abnormal synchronous
> +	 * errors, do a force kill.
> +	 */
> +	if (sync && !queued) {
> +		pr_err("Sending SIGBUS to current task due to memory error not recovered");
> +		force_sig(SIGBUS);
> +	}

Except that there are a bunch of CXL GUIDs being handled there too and
this will sigbus those processes now automatically.

Lemme add the whole bunch from

  671a794c33c6 ("acpi/ghes: Process CXL Component Events")

for comment to Cc.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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