Re: [PATCH 0/6] use memcpy_mcsafe() for copy_to_iter()

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed May 02 2018 - 04:30:49 EST


On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 07:25:57PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Right, but the only way to make MCE non-fatal is to teach the machine
> check handler about recoverable conditions. This patch teaches the
> machine check handler how to recover copy_to_iter() errors.

Yeah, about that: maybe we talked about this at the time but does the
actual MCE signature state the error was caused by a read from an nvdimm
range?

Because if so, we could lower the severity of the error when we look at
it in the #MC handler and do some more graceful handling later...

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Boris.

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