Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] arch/fault: don't print logs for pte marker poison errors

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On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 12:41:42PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 11:29:26AM -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> > @@ -3938,7 +3938,7 @@ static vm_fault_t handle_pte_marker(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> >  
> >  	/* Higher priority than uffd-wp when data corrupted */
> >  	if (marker & PTE_MARKER_POISONED)
> > -		return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON;
> > +		return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_SILENT;
> 
> If you know here that this poisoning should be silent, why do you have
> to make it all complicated and propagate it into arch code, waste
> a separate VM_FAULT flag just for that instead of simply returning here
> a VM_FAULT_COMPLETED or some other innocuous value which would stop
> processing the fault?

AFAIK, He only wants it to be silent wrt. the arch fault handler not screaming,
but he still wants to be able to trigger force_sig_mceerr().


-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs




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