On Fri Sep 20, 2024 at 7:30 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: > > #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. > > After this 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 > > 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 above two issues, queue memory_failure() as a task_work so that it runs in > the context of the process that is actually consuming the poisoned data. > > Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Xiaofei Tan <tanxiaofei@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > 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 93eb11482832..60d8044f14d1 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; > +}; I'd rename this as ghes_task_work. It is too generic name IMHO, easily confused with task_work.h definitions. BR, Jarkko