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 f2ee28c44d7a..95e9520eb803 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 ghes_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().
*/
