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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2021-09-13 14:52:39 -0700
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2021-09-14 10:27:03 +0200
commit81065b35e2486c024c7aa86caed452e1f01a59d4 (patch)
tree729840372a16ef54c6e96b34ef7d17910393b263 /include/linux
parent34b1999da935a33be6239226bfa6cd4f704c5c88 (diff)
x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery
There are two cases for machine check recovery: 1) The machine check was triggered by ring3 (application) code. This is the simpler case. The machine check handler simply queues work to be executed on return to user. That code unmaps the page from all users and arranges to send a SIGBUS to the task that triggered the poison. 2) The machine check was triggered in kernel code that is covered by an exception table entry. In this case the machine check handler still queues a work entry to unmap the page, etc. but this will not be called right away because the #MC handler returns to the fix up code address in the exception table entry. Problems occur if the kernel triggers another machine check before the return to user processes the first queued work item. Specifically, the work is queued using the ->mce_kill_me callback structure in the task struct for the current thread. Attempting to queue a second work item using this same callback results in a loop in the linked list of work functions to call. So when the kernel does return to user, it enters an infinite loop processing the same entry for ever. There are some legitimate scenarios where the kernel may take a second machine check before returning to the user. 1) Some code (e.g. futex) first tries a get_user() with page faults disabled. If this fails, the code retries with page faults enabled expecting that this will resolve the page fault. 2) Copy from user code retries a copy in byte-at-time mode to check whether any additional bytes can be copied. On the other side of the fence are some bad drivers that do not check the return value from individual get_user() calls and may access multiple user addresses without noticing that some/all calls have failed. Fix by adding a counter (current->mce_count) to keep track of repeated machine checks before task_work() is called. First machine check saves the address information and calls task_work_add(). Subsequent machine checks before that task_work call back is executed check that the address is in the same page as the first machine check (since the callback will offline exactly one page). Expected worst case is four machine checks before moving on (e.g. one user access with page faults disabled, then a repeat to the same address with page faults enabled ... repeat in copy tail bytes). Just in case there is some code that loops forever enforce a limit of 10. [ bp: Massage commit message, drop noinstr, fix typo, extend panic messages. ] Fixes: 5567d11c21a1 ("x86/mce: Send #MC singal from task work") Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YT/IJ9ziLqmtqEPu@agluck-desk2.amr.corp.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 1780260f237b..361c7bc72cbb 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1468,6 +1468,7 @@ struct task_struct {
mce_whole_page : 1,
__mce_reserved : 62;
struct callback_head mce_kill_me;
+ int mce_count;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_KRETPROBES