[PATCH v2] x86/fault: ignore RSVD flag in error code if P flag is 0

[Vasily Averin]

Several older Intel CPUs have this or a similar erratum.
For instance, the "Intel Xeon Processor 5400 Series
Specification Update" [1] has

"AX74. Not-Present Page Faults May Set the RSVD Flag in the Error Code

Problem:
 An attempt to access a page that is not marked present causes
 a page fault. Such a page fault delivers an error code in which
 both the P flag (bit 0) and the RSVD flag (bit 3) are 0.
 Due to this erratum, not-present page faults may deliver
 an error code in which the P flag is 0 but the RSVD flag is 1.

Implication:
 Software may erroneously infer that a page fault was due to
 a reserved-bit violation when it was actually due to an attempt
 to access a not-present page. Intel has not observed this erratum
 with any commercially available software.

Workaround:
 Page-fault handlers should ignore the RSVD flag in the error
 code if the P flag is 0"

This problem has been observed several times on several nodes using
Intel Xeon E5450 processors. These nodes were crashed after
"Bad pagetable: 000c" messages like this:

Corrupted page table at address 7f62d5b48e68
PGD 80000002e92bf067 PUD 1c99c5067 PMD 195015067 PTE 7fffffffb78b680
Bad pagetable: 000c [#1] SMP

Error code here is 0xc, it have set RSVD flag (bit 3), however P flag
(bit 0) is clear.

Let's follow the recommendations and ignore the RSVD flag in the cases
described.

Link: [1] https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/specification-updates/xeon-5400-spec-update.pdf
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aae9c7c6-989c-0261-470a-252537493b53@xxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Steve Sipes <steve.sipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: added original reporter
    improved patch description, added link to CPU spec update
---
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index fe10c6d76bac..ffc6d6bd2a22 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -1481,6 +1481,15 @@ handle_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
 	if (unlikely(kmmio_fault(regs, address)))
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * Some older Intel CPUs have errata
+	 * "Not-Present Page Faults May Set the RSVD Flag in the Error Code"
+	 * It is recommended to ignore the RSVD flag (bit 3) in the error code
+	 * if the P flag (bit 0) is 0.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely((error_code & X86_PF_RSVD) && !(error_code & X86_PF_PROT)))
+		error_code &= ~X86_PF_RSVD;
+
 	/* Was the fault on kernel-controlled part of the address space? */
 	if (unlikely(fault_in_kernel_space(address))) {
 		do_kern_addr_fault(regs, error_code, address);
-- 
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