[PATCH v3 4/6] x86/mce: Avoid tail copy when machine check terminated a copy from user

From: Tony Luck
Date: Tue Oct 06 2020 - 17:09:26 EST


In the page fault case it is ok to see if a few more unaligned bytes
can be copied from the source address. Worst case is that the page fault
will be triggered again.

Machine checks are more serious. Just give up at the point where the
main copy loop triggered the #MC and return from the copy code as if
the copy succeeded. The machine check handler will use task_work_add() to
make sure that the task is sent a SIGBUS.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S b/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
index 5b68e945bf65..77b9b2a3b5c8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/copy_user_64.S
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <asm/asm.h>
#include <asm/smap.h>
#include <asm/export.h>
+#include <asm/trapnr.h>

.macro ALIGN_DESTINATION
/* check for bad alignment of destination */
@@ -221,6 +222,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_user_enhanced_fast_string)
* Try to copy last bytes and clear the rest if needed.
* Since protection fault in copy_from/to_user is not a normal situation,
* it is not necessary to optimize tail handling.
+ * Don't try to copy the tail if machine check happened
*
* Input:
* rdi destination
@@ -232,11 +234,24 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_user_enhanced_fast_string)
*/
SYM_CODE_START_LOCAL(.Lcopy_user_handle_tail)
movl %edx,%ecx
+ cmp $X86_TRAP_MC,%eax /* check if X86_TRAP_MC */
+ je 3f
1: rep movsb
2: mov %ecx,%eax
ASM_CLAC
ret

+ /*
+ * Return zero to pretend that this copy succeeded. This
+ * is counter-intuitive, but needed to prevent the code
+ * in lib/iov_iter.c from retrying and running back into
+ * the poison cache line again. The machine check handler
+ * will ensure that a SIGBUS is sent to the task.
+ */
+3: xorl %eax,%eax
+ ASM_CLAC
+ ret
+
_ASM_EXTABLE_CPY(1b, 2b)
SYM_CODE_END(.Lcopy_user_handle_tail)

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