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commit a873dfe1032a132bf89f9e19a6ac44f5a0b78754 upstream. Patch series "Copy-on-write poison recovery", v3. Part 1 deals with the process that triggered the copy on write fault with a store to a shared read-only page. That process is send a SIGBUS with the usual machine check decoration to specify the virtual address of the lost page, together with the scope. Part 2 sets up to asynchronously take the page with the uncorrected error offline to prevent additional machine check faults. H/t to Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> and Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com> for pointing me to the existing function to queue a call to memory_failure(). On x86 there is some duplicate reporting (because the error is also signalled by the memory controller as well as by the core that triggered the machine check). Console logs look like this: This patch (of 2): If the kernel is copying a page as the result of a copy-on-write fault and runs into an uncorrectable error, Linux will crash because it does not have recovery code for this case where poison is consumed by the kernel. It is easy to set up a test case. Just inject an error into a private page, fork(2), and have the child process write to the page. I wrapped that neatly into a test at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/ras-tools.git just enable ACPI error injection and run: # ./einj_mem-uc -f copy-on-write Add a new copy_user_highpage_mc() function that uses copy_mc_to_kernel() on architectures where that is available (currently x86 and powerpc). When an error is detected during the page copy, return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON to caller of wp_page_copy(). This propagates up the call stack. Both x86 and powerpc have code in their fault handler to deal with this code by sending a SIGBUS to the application. Note that this patch avoids a system crash and signals the process that triggered the copy-on-write action. It does not take any action for the memory error that is still in the shared page. To handle that a call to memory_failure() is needed. But this cannot be done from wp_page_copy() because it holds mmap_lock(). Perhaps the architecture fault handlers can deal with this loose end in a subsequent patch? On Intel/x86 this loose end will often be handled automatically because the memory controller provides an additional notification of the h/w poison in memory, the handler for this will call memory_failure(). This isn't a 100% solution. If there are multiple errors, not all may be logged in this way. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [tony.luck@intel.com: add call to kmsan_unpoison_memory(), per Miaohe Lin] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221031201029.102123-2-tony.luck@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021200120.175753-1-tony.luck@intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021200120.175753-2-tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Tested-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Due to missing commits c89357e27f20d ("mm: support GUP-triggered unsharing of anonymous pages") 662ce1dc9caf4 ("delayacct: track delays from write-protect copy") b073d7f8aee4e ("mm: kmsan: maintain KMSAN metadata for page operations") The impact of c89357e27f20d is a name change from cow_user_page() to __wp_page_copy_user(). The impact of 662ce1dc9caf4 is the introduction of a new feature of tracking write-protect copy in delayacct. The impact of b073d7f8aee4e is an introduction of KASAN feature. None of these commits establishes meaningful dependency, hence resolve by ignoring them. - jane] Signed-off-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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