Re: [PATCH v12 0/3] ACPI: APEI: handle synchronous errors in task work

[Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>]

Hi, all,

Gentle ping.

Best Regards,
Shuai

在 2024/9/2 11:00, Shuai Xue 写道:
> ## Changes Log
> 
> changes since v11:
> - rebase to Linux 6.11-rc6
> - fix grammer and typo in commit log (per Borislav)
> - remove `sync_` perfix of `sync_task_work`  (per Borislav)
> - comments flags and description of `task_work`  (per Borislav)
> 
> changes since v10:
> - rebase to v6.8-rc2
> 
> changes since v9:
> - split patch 2 to address exactly one issue in one patch (per Borislav)
> - rewrite commit log according to template (per Borislav)
> - pickup reviewed-by tag of patch 1 from James Morse
> - alloc and free twcb through gen_pool_{alloc, free) (Per James)
> - rewrite cover letter
> 
> changes since v8:
> - remove the bug fix tag of patch 2 (per Jarkko Sakkinen)
> - remove the declaration of memory_failure_queue_kick (per Naoya Horiguchi)
> - rewrite the return value comments of memory_failure (per Naoya Horiguchi)
> 
> changes since v7:
> - rebase to Linux v6.6-rc2 (no code changed)
> - rewritten the cover letter to explain the motivation of this patchset
> 
> changes since v6:
> - add more explicty error message suggested by Xiaofei
> - pick up reviewed-by tag from Xiaofei
> - pick up internal reviewed-by tag from Baolin
> 
> changes since v5 by addressing comments from Kefeng:
> - document return value of memory_failure()
> - drop redundant comments in call site of memory_failure()
> - make ghes_do_proc void and handle abnormal case within it
> - pick up reviewed-by tag from Kefeng Wang
> 
> changes since v4 by addressing comments from Xiaofei:
> - do a force kill only for abnormal sync errors
> 
> changes since v3 by addressing comments from Xiaofei:
> - do a force kill for abnormal memory failure error such as invalid PA,
> unexpected severity, OOM, etc
> - pcik up tested-by tag from Ma Wupeng
> 
> changes since v2 by addressing comments from Naoya:
> - rename mce_task_work to sync_task_work
> - drop ACPI_HEST_NOTIFY_MCE case in is_hest_sync_notify()
> - add steps to reproduce this problem in cover letter
> 
> changes since v1:
> - synchronous events by notify type
> - Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221206153354.92394-3-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com/
> 
> ## Cover Letter
> 
> There are two major types of uncorrected recoverable (UCR) errors :
> 
> - Synchronous error: The error is detected and raised at the point of the
>    consumption in the execution flow, e.g. when a CPU tries to access
>    a poisoned cache line. The CPU will take a synchronous error exception
>    such as Synchronous External Abort (SEA) on Arm64 and Machine Check
>    Exception (MCE) on X86. OS requires to take action (for example, offline
>    failure page/kill failure thread) to recover this uncorrectable error.
> 
> - Asynchronous error: The error is detected out of processor execution
>    context, e.g. when an error is detected by a background scrubber. Some data
>    in the memory are corrupted. But the data have not been consumed. OS is
>    optional to take action to recover this uncorrectable error.
> 
> 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:
> 
>    # 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 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.
> 
> To fix it, queue memory_failure() as a task_work so that it runs in
> the context of the process that is actually consuming the poisoned data.
> 
> After this patch set:
> 
>    # 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 due to memory_failure() failed
> 
> 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 it, if memory_failure() failed, perform a force kill to current process.
> 
> Issue 3: a synchronous error infinite loop due to no memory_failure() queued
> 
> No memory_failure() work is queued unless all bellow preconditions check passed:
> 
> - `if (!(mem_err->validation_bits & CPER_MEM_VALID_PA))` in ghes_handle_memory_failure()
> - `if (flags == -1)` in ghes_handle_memory_failure()
> - `if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI_MEMORY_FAILURE))` in ghes_do_memory_failure()
> - `if (!pfn_valid(pfn) && !arch_is_platform_page(physical_addr)) ` in ghes_do_memory_failure()
> 
> If the preconditions are not passed, the user-space process will trigger SEA again.
> This loop can potentially exceed the platform firmware threshold or even
> trigger a kernel hard lockup, leading to a system reboot.
> 
> To fix it, if no memory_failure() queued, perform a force kill to current process.
> 
> And the the memory errors triggered in kernel-mode[5], also relies on this
> patchset to kill the failure thread.
> 
> Lv Ying and XiuQi from Huawei also proposed to address similar problem[2][4].
> Acknowledge to discussion with them.
> 
> [1] Add ARMv8 RAS virtualization support in QEMU https://patchew.org/QEMU/20200512030609.19593-1-gengdongjiu@huawei.com/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221205115111.131568-3-lvying6@huawei.com/
> [3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220914064935.7851-1-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com
> [4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221209095407.383211-1-lvying6@huawei.com/
> [5] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/cover/20240528085915.1955987-1-tongtiangen@huawei.com/
> 
> Shuai Xue (3):
>    ACPI: APEI: send SIGBUS to current task if synchronous memory error
>      not recovered
>    mm: memory-failure: move return value documentation to function
>      declaration
>    ACPI: APEI: handle synchronous exceptions in task work
> 
>   arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c |  7 ---
>   drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c       | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>   include/acpi/ghes.h            |  3 --
>   include/linux/mm.h             |  1 -
>   mm/memory-failure.c            | 22 +++------
>   5 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>