Re: [PATCH v6 1/1] mm/memory-failure: disable unpoison once hw error happens

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Thu Jun 16 2022 - 00:01:31 EST


On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 05:32:09PM +0800, zhenwei pi wrote:
> Currently unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn) is designed for soft
> poison(hwpoison-inject) only. Since 17fae1294ad9d, the KPTE gets
> cleared on a x86 platform once hardware memory corrupts.
>
> Unpoisoning a hardware corrupted page puts page back buddy only,
> the kernel has a chance to access the page with *NOT PRESENT* KPTE.
> This leads BUG during accessing on the corrupted KPTE.
>
> Suggested by David&Naoya, disable unpoison mechanism when a real HW error
> happens to avoid BUG like this:
>
> Unpoison: Software-unpoisoned page 0x61234
> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff888061234000
> #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
> #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
> PGD 2c01067 P4D 2c01067 PUD 107267063 PMD 10382b063 PTE 800fffff9edcb062
> Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> CPU: 4 PID: 26551 Comm: stress Kdump: loaded Tainted: G M OE 5.18.0.bm.1-amd64 #7
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) ...
> RIP: 0010:clear_page_erms+0x7/0x10
> Code: ...
> RSP: 0000:ffffc90001107bc8 EFLAGS: 00010246
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000901 RCX: 0000000000001000
> RDX: ffffea0001848d00 RSI: ffffea0001848d40 RDI: ffff888061234000
> RBP: ffffea0001848d00 R08: 0000000000000901 R09: 0000000000001276
> R10: 0000000000000003 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000140dca R15: 0000000000000001
> FS: 00007fd8b2333740(0000) GS:ffff88813fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: ffff888061234000 CR3: 00000001023d2005 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> PKRU: 55555554
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> prep_new_page+0x151/0x170
> get_page_from_freelist+0xca0/0xe20
> ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xab/0xc0
> ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20
> __alloc_pages+0x17e/0x340
> __folio_alloc+0x17/0x40
> vma_alloc_folio+0x84/0x280
> __handle_mm_fault+0x8d4/0xeb0
> handle_mm_fault+0xd5/0x2a0
> do_user_addr_fault+0x1d0/0x680
> ? kvm_read_and_reset_apf_flags+0x3b/0x50
> exc_page_fault+0x78/0x170
> asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
>
> Fixes: 847ce401df392 ("HWPOISON: Add unpoisoning support")
> Fixes: 17fae1294ad9d ("x86/{mce,mm}: Unmap the entire page if the whole page is affected and poisoned")
> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: zhenwei pi <pizhenwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst | 3 ++-
> drivers/base/memory.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
> mm/hwpoison-inject.c | 2 +-
> mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
> mm/memory-failure.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst
> index c742de1769d1..b9d5253c1305 100644
> --- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst
> @@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ Testing
> unpoison-pfn
> Software-unpoison page at PFN echoed into this file. This way
> a page can be reused again. This only works for Linux
> - injected failures, not for real memory failures.
> + injected failures, not for real memory failures. Once any hardware
> + memory failure happens, this feature is disabled.
>
> Note these injection interfaces are not stable and might change between
> kernel versions
> diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
> index 084d67fd55cc..bc60c9cd3230 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/memory.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
> @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ static ssize_t hard_offline_page_store(struct device *dev,
> if (kstrtoull(buf, 0, &pfn) < 0)
> return -EINVAL;
> pfn >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
> - ret = memory_failure(pfn, 0);
> + ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_SW_SIMULATED);
> if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> ret = 0;
> return ret ? ret : count;
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index bc8f326be0ce..4346e51484ba 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -3232,6 +3232,7 @@ enum mf_flags {
> MF_MUST_KILL = 1 << 2,
> MF_SOFT_OFFLINE = 1 << 3,
> MF_UNPOISON = 1 << 4,
> + MF_SW_SIMULATED = 1 << 5,
> };
> extern int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
> extern void memory_failure_queue(unsigned long pfn, int flags);
> diff --git a/mm/hwpoison-inject.c b/mm/hwpoison-inject.c
> index 5c0cddd81505..65e242b5a432 100644
> --- a/mm/hwpoison-inject.c
> +++ b/mm/hwpoison-inject.c
> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static int hwpoison_inject(void *data, u64 val)
>
> inject:
> pr_info("Injecting memory failure at pfn %#lx\n", pfn);
> - err = memory_failure(pfn, 0);
> + err = memory_failure(pfn, MF_SW_SIMULATED);
> return (err == -EOPNOTSUPP) ? 0 : err;
> }
>
> diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
> index d7b4f2602949..0316bbc6441b 100644
> --- a/mm/madvise.c
> +++ b/mm/madvise.c
> @@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ static int madvise_inject_error(int behavior,
> } else {
> pr_info("Injecting memory failure for pfn %#lx at process virtual address %#lx\n",
> pfn, start);
> - ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_COUNT_INCREASED);
> + ret = memory_failure(pfn, MF_COUNT_INCREASED | MF_SW_SIMULATED);
> if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> ret = 0;
> }
> diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
> index b85661cbdc4a..da39ec8afca8 100644
> --- a/mm/memory-failure.c
> +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
> @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ int sysctl_memory_failure_recovery __read_mostly = 1;
>
> atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages __read_mostly = ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
>
> +static bool hw_memory_failure __read_mostly = false;
> +
> static bool __page_handle_poison(struct page *page)
> {
> int ret;
> @@ -1768,6 +1770,9 @@ int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int flags)
>
> mutex_lock(&mf_mutex);
>
> + if (!(flags & MF_SW_SIMULATED))
> + hw_memory_failure = true;
> +
> p = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);
> if (!p) {
> res = arch_memory_failure(pfn, flags);
> @@ -2103,6 +2108,13 @@ int unpoison_memory(unsigned long pfn)
>
> mutex_lock(&mf_mutex);
>
> + if (hw_memory_failure) {
> + unpoison_pr_info("Unpoison: Disabled after HW memory failure %#lx\n",
> + pfn, &unpoison_rs);
> + ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> + goto unlock_mutex;
> + }
> +
> if (!PageHWPoison(p)) {
> unpoison_pr_info("Unpoison: Page was already unpoisoned %#lx\n",
> pfn, &unpoison_rs);
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>

--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs