linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] x86/mce: Use is_copy_from_user() to determine copy-from-user context

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Message-ID: <202503071115.uNkoVksh-lkp@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 11:39:03 +0800
From: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
To: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@...ux.alibaba.com>, tony.luck@...el.com,
	bp@...en8.de, peterz@...radead.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
	yazen.ghannam@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linmiaohe@...wei.com, nao.horiguchi@...il.com
Cc: oe-kbuild-all@...ts.linux.dev, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
	jpoimboe@...nel.org, linux-edac@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	baolin.wang@...ux.alibaba.com, tianruidong@...ux.alibaba.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] x86/mce: Use is_copy_from_user() to determine
 copy-from-user context

Hi Shuai,

kernel test robot noticed the following build errors:

[auto build test ERROR on akpm-mm/mm-everything]

url:    https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Shuai-Xue/x86-mce-Use-is_copy_from_user-to-determine-copy-from-user-context/20250306-101505
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git mm-everything
patch link:    https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250306021031.5538-2-xueshuai%40linux.alibaba.com
patch subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] x86/mce: Use is_copy_from_user() to determine copy-from-user context
config: i386-buildonly-randconfig-005-20250307 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250307/202503071115.uNkoVksh-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: gcc-12 (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250307/202503071115.uNkoVksh-lkp@intel.com/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202503071115.uNkoVksh-lkp@intel.com/

All errors (new ones prefixed by >>):

   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/severity.c: In function 'error_context':
>> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/severity.c:305:39: error: expected ';' before '}' token
     305 |                 return IN_KERNEL_RECOV
         |                                       ^
         |                                       ;
     306 |         }
         |         ~                              


vim +305 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/severity.c

   274	
   275	/*
   276	 * If mcgstatus indicated that ip/cs on the stack were
   277	 * no good, then "m->cs" will be zero and we will have
   278	 * to assume the worst case (IN_KERNEL) as we actually
   279	 * have no idea what we were executing when the machine
   280	 * check hit.
   281	 * If we do have a good "m->cs" (or a faked one in the
   282	 * case we were executing in VM86 mode) we can use it to
   283	 * distinguish an exception taken in user from from one
   284	 * taken in the kernel.
   285	 */
   286	static noinstr int error_context(struct mce *m, struct pt_regs *regs)
   287	{
   288		int fixup_type;
   289		bool copy_user;
   290	
   291		if ((m->cs & 3) == 3)
   292			return IN_USER;
   293	
   294		if (!mc_recoverable(m->mcgstatus))
   295			return IN_KERNEL;
   296	
   297		/* Allow instrumentation around external facilities usage. */
   298		instrumentation_begin();
   299		fixup_type = ex_get_fixup_type(m->ip);
   300		copy_user  = is_copy_from_user(regs);
   301		instrumentation_end();
   302	
   303		if (copy_user) {
   304			m->kflags |= MCE_IN_KERNEL_COPYIN | MCE_IN_KERNEL_COPYIN;
 > 305			return IN_KERNEL_RECOV
   306		}
   307	
   308		switch (fixup_type) {
   309		case EX_TYPE_FAULT_MCE_SAFE:
   310		case EX_TYPE_DEFAULT_MCE_SAFE:
   311			m->kflags |= MCE_IN_KERNEL_RECOV;
   312			return IN_KERNEL_RECOV;
   313	
   314		default:
   315			return IN_KERNEL;
   316		}
   317	}
   318	

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