[PATCH] x86/mce: Remove mce_report_event()

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Mar 25 2019 - 13:21:19 EST


From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

Calling this function has been wrong for a while now:

* Can't call schedule_work() in #MC context.

* mce_notify_irq() either.

* None of that noodling is needed anymore - all it needs to do is kick
the IRQ work which would self-IPI so that once the #MC handler is done,
the work queue will run and process queued MCE records.

So remove it.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c | 20 ++------------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
index b7fb541a4873..ca031fc79769 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/core.c
@@ -460,23 +460,6 @@ static void mce_irq_work_cb(struct irq_work *entry)
mce_schedule_work();
}

-static void mce_report_event(struct pt_regs *regs)
-{
- if (regs->flags & (X86_VM_MASK|X86_EFLAGS_IF)) {
- mce_notify_irq();
- /*
- * Triggering the work queue here is just an insurance
- * policy in case the syscall exit notify handler
- * doesn't run soon enough or ends up running on the
- * wrong CPU (can happen when audit sleeps)
- */
- mce_schedule_work();
- return;
- }
-
- irq_work_queue(&mce_irq_work);
-}
-
/*
* Check if the address reported by the CPU is in a format we can parse.
* It would be possible to add code for most other cases, but all would
@@ -1301,7 +1284,8 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code)
mce_panic("Fatal machine check on current CPU", &m, msg);

if (worst > 0)
- mce_report_event(regs);
+ irq_work_queue(&mce_irq_work);
+
mce_wrmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCG_STATUS, 0);

sync_core();
--
2.21.0