Re: [PATCH v2] x86/fault: Send a SIGBUS to user process always for hwpoison page access.

From: HORIGUCHI NAOYA(堀口 直也)
Date: Thu Feb 04 2021 - 02:28:49 EST


Hi Aili,

On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 04:17:49PM +0800, Aili Yao wrote:
> When one page is already hwpoisoned by AO action, process may not be
> killed, the process mapping this page may make a syscall include this
> page and result to trigger a VM_FAULT_HWPOISON fault, if it's in kernel
> mode it may be fixed by fixup_exception. Current code will just return
> error code to user process.
>
> This is not sufficient, we should send a SIGBUS to the process and log
> the info to console, as we can't trust the process will handle the error
> correctly.
>
> Suggested-by: Feng Yang <yangfeng1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aili Yao <yaoaili@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
...

> @@ -662,12 +662,32 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
> * In this case we need to make sure we're not recursively
> * faulting through the emulate_vsyscall() logic.
> */
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE) &&
> + fault & (VM_FAULT_HWPOISON|VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE)) {
> + unsigned int lsb = 0;
> +
> + pr_err("MCE: Killing %s:%d due to hardware memory corruption fault at %lx\n",
> + current->comm, current->pid, address);
> +
> + sanitize_error_code(address, &error_code);
> + set_signal_archinfo(address, error_code);
> +
> + if (fault & VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE)
> + lsb = hstate_index_to_shift(VM_FAULT_GET_HINDEX(fault));
> + if (fault & VM_FAULT_HWPOISON)
> + lsb = PAGE_SHIFT;
> +
> + force_sig_mceerr(BUS_MCEERR_AR, (void __user *)address, lsb);

This part contains some duplicated code with do_sigbus(), so some refactoring (like
adding a common function) would be more helpful.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi