Re: [PATCH v10 2/6] arm64: add support for machine check error safe

From: Tong Tiangen
Date: Tue Jan 30 2024 - 08:23:21 EST




在 2024/1/30 21:07, Mark Rutland 写道:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 06:57:24PM +0800, Tong Tiangen wrote:
在 2024/1/30 1:51, Mark Rutland 写道:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 09:46:48PM +0800, Tong Tiangen wrote:

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 55f6455a8284..312932dc100b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -730,6 +730,31 @@ static int do_bad(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
return 1; /* "fault" */
}
+static bool arm64_do_kernel_sea(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
+ struct pt_regs *regs, int sig, int code)
+{
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC))
+ return false;
+
+ if (user_mode(regs))
+ return false;

This function is called "arm64_do_kernel_sea"; surely the caller should *never*
call this for a SEA taken from user mode?

In do_sea(), the processing logic is as follows:
do_sea()
{
[...]
if (user_mode(regs) && apei_claim_sea(regs) == 0) {
return 0;
}
[...]
//[1]
if (!arm64_do_kernel_sea()) {
arm64_notify_die();
}
}

[1] user_mode() is still possible to go here,If user_mode() goes here,
it indicates that the impact caused by the memory error cannot be
processed correctly by apei_claim_sea().


In this case, only arm64_notify_die() can be used, This also maintains
the original logic of user_mode()'s processing.

My point is that either:

(a) The name means that this should *only* be called for SEAs from a kernel
context, and the caller should be responsible for ensuring that.

(b) The name is misleading, and the 'kernel' part should be removed from the
name.

I prefer (a), and if you head down that route it's clear that you can get rid
of a bunch of redundant logic and remove the need for do_kernel_sea(), anyway,
e.g.

| static int do_sea(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
| {
| const struct fault_info *inf = esr_to_fault_info(esr);
| bool claimed = apei_claim_sea(regs) == 0;
| unsigned long siaddr;
|
| if (claimed) {
| if (user_mode(regs)) {
| /*
| * APEI claimed this as a firmware-first notification.
| * Some processing deferred to task_work before ret_to_user().
| */
| return 0;
| } else {
| /*
| * TODO: explain why this is correct.
| */
| if ((current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) &&
| fixup_exception_mc(regs))
| return 0;
| }
| }

This code seems to be a bit more concise and avoids misleading function names, which I'll use in the next version:)

|
| if (esr & ESR_ELx_FnV) {
| siaddr = 0;
| } else {
| /*
| * The architecture specifies that the tag bits of FAR_EL1 are
| * UNKNOWN for synchronous external aborts. Mask them out now
| * so that userspace doesn't see them.
| */
| siaddr = untagged_addr(far);
| }
| arm64_notify_die(inf->name, regs, inf->sig, inf->code, siaddr, esr);
|
| return 0;
| }

+
+ if (apei_claim_sea(regs) < 0)
+ return false;
+
+ if (!fixup_exception_mc(regs))
+ return false;
+
+ if (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
+ return true;

I think this needs a comment; why do we allow kthreads to go on, yet kill user
threads? What about helper threads (e.g. for io_uring)?

If a memroy error occurs in the kernel thread, the problem is more
serious than that of the user thread. As a result, related kernel
functions, such as khugepaged, cannot run properly. kernel panic should
be a better choice at this time.

Therefore, the processing scope of this framework is limited to the user
thread.

That's reasonable, but needs to be explained in a comment.

Also, as above, I think you haven't conisderd helper threads (e.g. io_uring),
which don't have PF_KTHREAD set but do have PF_USER_WORKER set. I suspect those
need the same treatment as kthreads.

Okay, I'm going to investigate PF_USER_WORKER.


+ set_thread_esr(0, esr);

Why do we set the ESR to 0?

The purpose is to reuse the logic of arm64_notify_die() and set the
following parameters before sending signals to users:
current->thread.fault_address = 0;
current->thread.fault_code = err;

Ok, but there's no need to open-code that.

As per my above example, please continue to use the existing call to
arm64_notify_die() rather than open-coding bits of it.

OK.

Many thanks.
Tong.

Mark.
.