[PATCH] x86/mce/AMD: Fix partial SMCA bank init when CPU 0 != thread 0

From: Jack Miller
Date: Tue Jun 27 2017 - 20:06:47 EST


After a call to firmware SwitchBSP(), Linux can be booted with a thread
that isn't the first in the system. That thread automatically becomes
CPU 0.

Currently get_smca_bank_info() queries CPU 0's MCA types, but if CPU 0
!= hardware thread 0, it will get an incomplete list of MCA types in
smca_banks.

This causes get_name() to return NULL when initing hardware thread 0's
additional types, and then the following error when creating the bank
kobj in threshold_create_bank():

[ 1.171552] kobject: can not set name properly!
[ 1.171569] kobject_create_and_add: kobject_add error: -12

This error path isn't correctly handled. threshold_init_device() fails,
but later if a thread is offlined, threshold_remove_bank() causes a BUG:

[ 67.491772] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
[ 67.491781] IP: mce_threshold_remove_device.part.7+0x82/0x2c0

because per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu) is unexpectedly NULL.

This patch fixes get_smca_bank_info() to query hardware thread 0, not
necessarily CPU 0, to get a full set of MCA types.

I'm uncertain that reading the APIC ID is correct here, and this will
fail if there is AMD hardware where hardware thread 0's APIC ID != 0,
but the other topology/CPUID based functions don't seem to easily
differentiate CPU 0 and thread 0 or possibly aren't inited at this
point. Suggestions for a better mechanism welcome.

Signed-off-by: Jack Miller <jack@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
index 6e4a047e4b68..9d74adcf34d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c
@@ -170,8 +170,8 @@ static void get_smca_bank_info(unsigned int bank)
struct smca_hwid *s_hwid;
u32 high, instance_id;

- /* Collect bank_info using CPU 0 for now. */
- if (cpu)
+ /* Collect bank_info using hardware thread 0 for now. */
+ if (apic->get_apic_id(apic->read(APIC_ID)) != 0)
return;

if (rdmsr_safe_on_cpu(cpu, MSR_AMD64_SMCA_MCx_IPID(bank), &instance_id, &high)) {
--
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