Re: [PATCH v11 3/3] ACPI: APEI: handle synchronous exceptions in task work to send correct SIGBUS si_code

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 04:01:44PM +0800, Shuai Xue wrote:
> Hardware errors could be signaled by asynchronous interrupt, e.g. when an
> error is detected by a background scrubber, or signaled by synchronous
> exception, e.g. when a CPU tries to access a poisoned cache line. 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 should
> terminate the current process which accessing the poisoned page. This is

"which has accessed poison data"

> done by sending a SIGBUS signal with an error code BUS_MCEERR_AR,
> indicating an action-required machine check error on read.
> 
> However, the memory failure recovery is incorrectly sending a SIGBUS
> with wrong error code BUS_MCEERR_AO for synchronous errors in early kill
> mode, even MF_ACTION_REQUIRED is set. The main problem is that

"even if"

> synchronous errors are queued as a memory_failure() work, and are
> executed within a kernel thread context, not the user-space process that
> encountered the corrupted memory on ARM64 platform. As a result, when
> kill_proc() is called to terminate the process, it sends the incorrect
> SIGBUS error code because the context in which it operates is not the
> one where the error was triggered.
> 
> To this end, queue memory_failure() as a task_work so that it runs in
> the context of the process that is actually consuming the poisoned data,
> and it will send SIBBUS with si_code BUS_MCEERR_AR.

SIGBUS

> 
> Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
> Tested-by: Ma Wupeng <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Xiaofei Tan <tanxiaofei@huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  include/acpi/ghes.h      |  3 --
>  mm/memory-failure.c      | 13 -------
>  3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> index 0892550732d4..e5086d795bee 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
> @@ -465,28 +465,41 @@ 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 sync_task_work - for synchronous RAS event

What's so special about it being a "sync_"?

task_work is just fine and something else could use it too.

> + *
> + * @twork:                callback_head for task work
> + * @pfn:                  page frame number of corrupted page
> + * @flags:                fine tune action taken

s/fine tune action taken/work control flags/

> + *
> + * Structure to pass task work to be handled before
> + * ret_to_user via task_work_add().

What is "ret_to_user"?

If this is an ARM thing, then make sure you explain stuff properly and
detailed. This driver is used by multiple architectures.

>   */
> -static void ghes_kick_task_work(struct callback_head *head)
> +struct sync_task_work {
> +	struct callback_head twork;
> +	u64 pfn;
> +	int flags;
> +};
> +
> +static void memory_failure_cb(struct callback_head *twork)
>  {
> -	struct acpi_hest_generic_status *estatus;
> -	struct ghes_estatus_node *estatus_node;
> -	u32 node_len;
> +	int ret;
> +	struct sync_task_work *twcb =
> +		container_of(twork, struct sync_task_work, twork);

Ugly linebreak - no need for it.

> -	estatus_node = container_of(head, struct ghes_estatus_node, task_work);
> -	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_MEMORY_FAILURE))
> -		memory_failure_queue_kick(estatus_node->task_work_cpu);
> +	ret = memory_failure(twcb->pfn, twcb->flags);
> +	gen_pool_free(ghes_estatus_pool, (unsigned long)twcb, sizeof(*twcb));
>  
> -	estatus = GHES_ESTATUS_FROM_NODE(estatus_node);
> -	node_len = GHES_ESTATUS_NODE_LEN(cper_estatus_len(estatus));
> -	gen_pool_free(ghes_estatus_pool, (unsigned long)estatus_node, node_len);
> +	if (!ret || ret == -EHWPOISON || ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> +		return;
> +
> +	pr_err("Sending SIGBUS to current task due to memory error not recovered");
> +	force_sig(SIGBUS);
>  }
>  
>  static bool ghes_do_memory_failure(u64 physical_addr, int flags)
>  {
>  	unsigned long pfn;
> +	struct sync_task_work *twcb;
>  
>  	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_MEMORY_FAILURE))
>  		return false;
> @@ -499,6 +512,18 @@ static bool ghes_do_memory_failure(u64 physical_addr, int flags)
>  		return false;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (flags == MF_ACTION_REQUIRED && current->mm) {
> +		twcb = (void *)gen_pool_alloc(ghes_estatus_pool, sizeof(*twcb));
> +		if (!twcb)
> +			return false;
> +
> +		twcb->pfn = pfn;
> +		twcb->flags = flags;
> +		init_task_work(&twcb->twork, memory_failure_cb);
> +		task_work_add(current, &twcb->twork, TWA_RESUME);
> +		return true;
> +	}
> +
>  	memory_failure_queue(pfn, flags);
>  	return true;
>  }
> @@ -746,7 +771,7 @@ int cxl_cper_unregister_callback(cxl_cper_callback callback)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(cxl_cper_unregister_callback, CXL);
>  
> -static bool ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
> +static void ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
>  			 const struct acpi_hest_generic_status *estatus)
>  {
>  	int sev, sec_sev;
> @@ -814,8 +839,6 @@ static bool ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *ghes,
>  		pr_err("Sending SIGBUS to current task due to memory error not recovered");
>  		force_sig(SIGBUS);
>  	}
> -
> -	return queued;
>  }
>  
>  static void __ghes_print_estatus(const char *pfx,
> @@ -1117,9 +1140,7 @@ static void ghes_proc_in_irq(struct irq_work *irq_work)
>  	struct ghes_estatus_node *estatus_node;
>  	struct acpi_hest_generic *generic;
>  	struct acpi_hest_generic_status *estatus;
> -	bool task_work_pending;
>  	u32 len, node_len;
> -	int ret;
>  
>  	llnode = llist_del_all(&ghes_estatus_llist);
>  	/*
> @@ -1134,25 +1155,16 @@ static void ghes_proc_in_irq(struct irq_work *irq_work)
>  		estatus = GHES_ESTATUS_FROM_NODE(estatus_node);
>  		len = cper_estatus_len(estatus);
>  		node_len = GHES_ESTATUS_NODE_LEN(len);
> -		task_work_pending = ghes_do_proc(estatus_node->ghes, estatus);
> +
> +		ghes_do_proc(estatus_node->ghes, estatus);
> +
>  		if (!ghes_estatus_cached(estatus)) {
>  			generic = estatus_node->generic;
>  			if (ghes_print_estatus(NULL, generic, estatus))
>  				ghes_estatus_cache_add(generic, estatus);
>  		}
> -
> -		if (task_work_pending && current->mm) {
> -			estatus_node->task_work.func = ghes_kick_task_work;
> -			estatus_node->task_work_cpu = smp_processor_id();
> -			ret = task_work_add(current, &estatus_node->task_work,
> -					    TWA_RESUME);
> -			if (ret)
> -				estatus_node->task_work.func = NULL;
> -		}
> -
> -		if (!estatus_node->task_work.func)
> -			gen_pool_free(ghes_estatus_pool,
> -				      (unsigned long)estatus_node, node_len);

I have no clue why this is being removed.

Why doesn't a synchronous exception on ARM call into ghes_proc_in_irq()?

That SDEI thing certainly does.

Well looka here:

  7f17b4a121d0 ("ACPI: APEI: Kick the memory_failure() queue for synchronous errors")

that thing does exactly what you're trying to "fix". So why doesn't that
work for you?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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