Commit-ID: 17fea54bf0ab34fa09a06bbde2f58ed7bbdf9299 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/17fea54bf0ab34fa09a06bbde2f58ed7bbdf9299 Author: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:07:17 +0200 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:31:22 +0200 x86/mce: Fix MCE severity messages Derek noticed that a critical MCE gets reported with the wrong error type description: [Hardware Error]: CPU 34: Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank 9: f200003f000100b0 [Hardware Error]: RIP !INEXACT! 10:<ffffffff812e14c1> {intel_idle+0xb1/0x170} [Hardware Error]: TSC 49587b8e321cb [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:306e4 TIME 1431561296 SOCKET 1 APIC 29 [Hardware Error]: Some CPUs didn't answer in synchronization [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Invalid ^^^^^^^ The last line with 'Invalid' should have printed the high level MCE error type description we get from mce_severity, i.e. something like: [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Action required: data load error in a user process this happens due to the fact that mce_no_way_out() iterates over all MCA banks and possibly overwrites the @msg argument which is used in the panic printing later. Change behavior to take the message of only and the (last) critical MCE it detects. Reported-by: Derek <denc716@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431936437-25286-3-git-send-email-bp@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c index e535533..20190bd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -708,6 +708,7 @@ static int mce_no_way_out(struct mce *m, char **msg, unsigned long *validp, struct pt_regs *regs) { int i, ret = 0; + char *tmp; for (i = 0; i < mca_cfg.banks; i++) { m->status = mce_rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCx_STATUS(i)); @@ -716,9 +717,11 @@ static int mce_no_way_out(struct mce *m, char **msg, unsigned long *validp, if (quirk_no_way_out) quirk_no_way_out(i, m, regs); } - if (mce_severity(m, mca_cfg.tolerant, msg, true) >= - MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY) + + if (mce_severity(m, mca_cfg.tolerant, &tmp, true) >= MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY) { + *msg = tmp; ret = 1; + } } return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html