Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jan 13 2021 - 12:36:03 EST


On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 04:32:54PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> I'll work on it. We tend not to have essay length messages as panic() strings. But I can
> add a comment in the code there so that people who grep whatever panic message
> we choose can get more details on what happened and what to do.

I did not mean to write an essay but to simply make it more palatable
for "normal" users. Something like:

"PANIC: Second machine check exception while accessing user data."

or along those lines to explain *why* the machine panics.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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