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Message-Id: <D3WS4D64BTGD.217F1PPA4VQSF@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 19:11:17 +0300
From: "Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@...nel.org>
To: "Shuai Xue" <xueshuai@...ux.alibaba.com>, <bp@...en8.de>,
<rafael@...nel.org>, <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>, <tanxiaofei@...wei.com>,
<mawupeng1@...wei.com>, <tony.luck@...el.com>, <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
<naoya.horiguchi@....com>, <james.morse@....com>, <tongtiangen@...wei.com>,
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <will@...nel.org>
Cc: <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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<dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, <lenb@...nel.org>, <hpa@...or.com>,
<robert.moore@...el.com>, <lvying6@...wei.com>, <xiexiuqi@...wei.com>,
<zhuo.song@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 3/3] ACPI: APEI: handle synchronous exceptions in
task work
On Mon Sep 2, 2024 at 6:00 AM EEST, Shuai Xue wrote:
> The memory uncorrected error could be signaled by asynchronous interrupt
> (specifically, SPI in arm64 platform), e.g. when an error is detected by
> a background scrubber, or signaled by synchronous exception
> (specifically, data abort excepction in arm64 platform), e.g. when a CPU
> tries to access a poisoned cache line. Currently, both synchronous and
> asynchronous error use memory_failure_queue() to schedule
> memory_failure() exectute in kworker context.
>
> As a result, when a user-space process is accessing a poisoned data, a
> data abort is taken and the memory_failure() is executed in the kworker
> context:
>
> - will send wrong si_code by SIGBUS signal in early_kill mode, and
> - can not kill the user-space in some cases resulting a synchronous
> error infinite loop
>
> Issue 1: send wrong si_code in early_kill mode
>
> Since commit a70297d22132 ("ACPI: APEI: set memory failure flags as
> MF_ACTION_REQUIRED on synchronous events")', the flag MF_ACTION_REQUIRED
> could be used to determine whether a synchronous exception occurs on
> ARM64 platform. When a synchronous exception is detected, the kernel is
> expected to terminate the current process which has accessed poisoned
> page. This is done by sending a SIGBUS signal with an error code
> BUS_MCEERR_AR, indicating an action-required machine check error on
> read.
>
> However, when kill_proc() is called to terminate the processes who have
> the poisoned page mapped, it sends the incorrect SIGBUS error code
> BUS_MCEERR_AO because the context in which it operates is not the one
> where the error was triggered.
>
> To reproduce this problem:
>
> # STEP1: enable early kill mode
> #sysctl -w vm.memory_failure_early_kill=1
> vm.memory_failure_early_kill = 1
>
> # STEP2: inject an UCE error and consume it to trigger a synchronous error
> #einj_mem_uc single
> 0: single vaddr = 0xffffb0d75400 paddr = 4092d55b400
> injecting ...
> triggering ...
> signal 7 code 5 addr 0xffffb0d75000
> page not present
> Test passed
>
> The si_code (code 5) from einj_mem_uc indicates that it is BUS_MCEERR_AO
> error and it is not fact.
>
> To fix it, queue memory_failure() as a task_work so that it runs in
> the context of the process that is actually consuming the poisoned data.
>
> After this patch set:
s/patch set/patch/
>
> # STEP1: enable early kill mode
> #sysctl -w vm.memory_failure_early_kill=1
> vm.memory_failure_early_kill = 1
>
> # STEP2: inject an UCE error and consume it to trigger a synchronous error
> #einj_mem_uc single
> 0: single vaddr = 0xffffb0d75400 paddr = 4092d55b400
> injecting ...
> triggering ...
> signal 7 code 4 addr 0xffffb0d75000
> page not present
> Test passed
>
> The si_code (code 4) from einj_mem_uc indicates that it is BUS_MCEERR_AR
> error as we expected.
>
> Issue 2: a synchronous error infinite loop due to memory_failure() failed
>
> If a user-space process, e.g. devmem, a poisoned page which has been set
> HWPosion flag, kill_accessing_process() is called to send SIGBUS to the
> current processs with error info. Because the memory_failure() is
> executed in the kworker contex, it will just do nothing but return
> EFAULT. So, devmem will access the posioned page and trigger an
> excepction again, resulting in a synchronous error infinite loop. Such
> loop may cause platform firmware to exceed some threshold and reboot
> when Linux could have recovered from this error.
>
> To reproduce this problem:
>
> # STEP 1: inject an UCE error, and kernel will set HWPosion flag for related page
> #einj_mem_uc single
> 0: single vaddr = 0xffffb0d75400 paddr = 4092d55b400
> injecting ...
> triggering ...
> signal 7 code 4 addr 0xffffb0d75000
> page not present
> Test passed
>
> # STEP 2: access the same page and it will trigger a synchronous error infinite loop
> devmem 0x4092d55b400
>
> To fix it, if memory_failure() failed, perform a force kill to current process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Tested-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@...wei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Xiaofei Tan <tanxiaofei@...wei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> include/acpi/ghes.h | 3 --
> include/linux/mm.h | 1 -
> mm/memory-failure.c | 13 -------
> 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> index b0b20ee533d9..b956e9ed020f 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> @@ -467,28 +467,42 @@ static void ghes_clear_estatus(struct ghes *ghes,
> }
>
> /*
> - * Called as task_work before returning to user-space.
> - * Ensure any queued work has been done before we return to the context that
> - * triggered the notification.
> + * struct task_work - for synchronous RAS event
> + *
> + * @twork: callback_head for task work
> + * @pfn: page frame number of corrupted page
> + * @flags: work control flags
> + *
> + * Structure to pass task work to be handled before
> + * returning to user-space via task_work_add().
> */
> -static void ghes_kick_task_work(struct callback_head *head)
> +struct task_work {
> + struct callback_head twork;
> + u64 pfn;
> + int flags;
> +};
> +
> +static void memory_failure_cb(struct callback_head *twork)
> {
> - struct acpi_hest_generic_status *estatus;
> - struct ghes_estatus_node *estatus_node;
> - u32 node_len;
> + struct task_work *twcb = container_of(twork, struct task_work, twork);
> + unsigned long pfn = twcb->pfn;
> + int ret;
>
> - estatus_node = container_of(head, struct ghes_estatus_node, task_work);
> - if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_MEMORY_FAILURE))
> - memory_failure_queue_kick(estatus_node->task_work_cpu);
> + ret = memory_failure(twcb->pfn, twcb->flags);
> + gen_pool_free(ghes_estatus_pool, (unsigned long)twcb, sizeof(*twcb));
>
> - estatus = GHES_ESTATUS_FROM_NODE(estatus_node);
> - node_len = GHES_ESTATUS_NODE_LEN(cper_estatus_len(estatus));
> - gen_pool_free(ghes_estatus_pool, (unsigned long)estatus_node, node_len);
> + if (!ret || ret == -EHWPOISON || ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> + return;
> +
> + pr_err("%#lx: Sending SIGBUS to %s:%d due to hardware memory corruption\n",
> + pfn, current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
> + force_sig(SIGBUS);
> }
>
> static bool ghes_do_memory_failure(u64 physical_addr, int flags)
> {
> unsigned long pfn;
> + struct task_work *twcb;
>
> if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_MEMORY_FAILURE))
> return false;
> @@ -501,6 +515,18 @@ static bool ghes_do_memory_failure(u64 physical_addr, int flags)
> return false;
> }
>
> + if (flags == MF_ACTION_REQUIRED && current->mm) {
> + twcb = (void *)gen_pool_alloc(ghes_estatus_pool, sizeof(*twcb));
> + if (!twcb)
> + return false;
> +
> + twcb->pfn = pfn;
> + twcb->flags = flags;
> + init_task_work(&twcb->twork, memory_failure_cb);
> + task_work_add(current, &twcb->twork, TWA_RESUME);
> + return true;
> + }
> +
> memory_failure_queue(pfn, flags);
> return true;
> }
> @@ -745,7 +771,7 @@ int cxl_cper_kfifo_get(struct cxl_cper_work_data *wd)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(cxl_cper_kfifo_get, CXL);
>
> -static bool ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
> +static void ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
> const struct acpi_hest_generic_status *estatus)
> {
> int sev, sec_sev;
> @@ -810,8 +836,6 @@ static bool ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
> current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
> force_sig(SIGBUS);
> }
> -
> - return queued;
> }
>
> static void __ghes_print_estatus(const char *pfx,
> @@ -1113,9 +1137,7 @@ static void ghes_proc_in_irq(struct irq_work *irq_work)
> struct ghes_estatus_node *estatus_node;
> struct acpi_hest_generic *generic;
> struct acpi_hest_generic_status *estatus;
> - bool task_work_pending;
> u32 len, node_len;
> - int ret;
>
> llnode = llist_del_all(&ghes_estatus_llist);
> /*
> @@ -1130,25 +1152,16 @@ static void ghes_proc_in_irq(struct irq_work *irq_work)
> estatus = GHES_ESTATUS_FROM_NODE(estatus_node);
> len = cper_estatus_len(estatus);
> node_len = GHES_ESTATUS_NODE_LEN(len);
> - task_work_pending = ghes_do_proc(estatus_node->ghes, estatus);
> +
> + ghes_do_proc(estatus_node->ghes, estatus);
> +
> if (!ghes_estatus_cached(estatus)) {
> generic = estatus_node->generic;
> if (ghes_print_estatus(NULL, generic, estatus))
> ghes_estatus_cache_add(generic, estatus);
> }
> -
> - if (task_work_pending && current->mm) {
> - estatus_node->task_work.func = ghes_kick_task_work;
> - estatus_node->task_work_cpu = smp_processor_id();
> - ret = task_work_add(current, &estatus_node->task_work,
> - TWA_RESUME);
> - if (ret)
> - estatus_node->task_work.func = NULL;
> - }
> -
> - if (!estatus_node->task_work.func)
> - gen_pool_free(ghes_estatus_pool,
> - (unsigned long)estatus_node, node_len);
> + gen_pool_free(ghes_estatus_pool, (unsigned long)estatus_node,
> + node_len);
>
> llnode = next;
> }
> @@ -1209,7 +1222,6 @@ static int ghes_in_nmi_queue_one_entry(struct ghes *ghes,
>
> estatus_node->ghes = ghes;
> estatus_node->generic = ghes->generic;
> - estatus_node->task_work.func = NULL;
> estatus = GHES_ESTATUS_FROM_NODE(estatus_node);
>
> if (__ghes_read_estatus(estatus, buf_paddr, fixmap_idx, len)) {
> diff --git a/include/acpi/ghes.h b/include/acpi/ghes.h
> index be1dd4c1a917..ebd21b05fe6e 100644
> --- a/include/acpi/ghes.h
> +++ b/include/acpi/ghes.h
> @@ -35,9 +35,6 @@ struct ghes_estatus_node {
> struct llist_node llnode;
> struct acpi_hest_generic *generic;
> struct ghes *ghes;
> -
> - int task_work_cpu;
> - struct callback_head task_work;
> };
>
> struct ghes_estatus_cache {
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 6549d0979b28..f5f1d6a8a07d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -3981,7 +3981,6 @@ enum mf_flags {
> int mf_dax_kill_procs(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
> unsigned long count, int mf_flags);
> extern int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
> -extern void memory_failure_queue_kick(int cpu);
> extern int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn);
> extern atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages __read_mostly;
> extern int soft_offline_page(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index df26e2ff5e06..e369aae2da1f 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -2486,19 +2486,6 @@ static void memory_failure_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
> }
> }
>
> -/*
> - * Process memory_failure work queued on the specified CPU.
> - * Used to avoid return-to-userspace racing with the memory_failure workqueue.
> - */
> -void memory_failure_queue_kick(int cpu)
> -{
> - struct memory_failure_cpu *mf_cpu;
> -
> - mf_cpu = &per_cpu(memory_failure_cpu, cpu);
> - cancel_work_sync(&mf_cpu->work);
> - memory_failure_work_func(&mf_cpu->work);
> -}
> -
> static int __init memory_failure_init(void)
> {
> struct memory_failure_cpu *mf_cpu;
BR, Jarkko
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