Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery
From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed Jan 13 2021 - 11:20:37 EST
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 04:06:09PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Maybe the other difference in approach between Andy and me is whether to
> go for a solution that covers all the corner cases, or just make an incremental
> improvement that allows for recover in some useful subset of remaining fatal
> cases, but still dies in other cases.
Does that mean more core code surgery?
> I'm happy to replace error messages with ones that are more descriptive and
> helpful to humans.
Yap, that: "Multiple copyin" with something more understandable to users...
Thx.
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