[RESEND 1/3] powerpc/mce: Bug fixes for MCE handling in kernel space

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 09:49:00 AEST 2018


On Thu,  5 Apr 2018 09:19:41 +1000
Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com> wrote:

> The code currently assumes PAGE_SHIFT as the shift value of
> the pfn, this works correctly (mostly) for user space pages,
> but the correct thing to do is

It would be good to actually explain the problem in the
changelog. I would have thought pte_pfn returns a
PAGE_SIZE based pfn value?

> 
> 1. Extrace the shift value returned via the pte-walk API's

      ^^^ extract?

> 2. Use the shift value to access the instruction address.
> 
> Note, the final physical address still use PAGE_SHIFT for
> computation. handle_ierror() is not modified and handle_derror()
> is modified just for extracting the correct instruction
> address.
> 
> Fixes: ba41e1e1ccb9 ("powerpc/mce: Hookup derror (load/store) UE errors")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c | 17 ++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
> index fe6fc63251fe..69c8cc1e8e4f 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/mce_power.c
> @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@
>   * Convert an address related to an mm to a PFN. NOTE: we are in real
>   * mode, we could potentially race with page table updates.
>   */
> -static unsigned long addr_to_pfn(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr)
> +static unsigned long addr_to_pfn(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr,
> +		unsigned int *shift)
>  {
>  	pte_t *ptep;
>  	unsigned long flags;
> @@ -49,9 +50,9 @@ static unsigned long addr_to_pfn(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr)
>  
>  	local_irq_save(flags);
>  	if (mm == current->mm)
> -		ptep = find_current_mm_pte(mm->pgd, addr, NULL, NULL);
> +		ptep = find_current_mm_pte(mm->pgd, addr, NULL, shift);
>  	else
> -		ptep = find_init_mm_pte(addr, NULL);
> +		ptep = find_init_mm_pte(addr, shift);
>  	local_irq_restore(flags);
>  	if (!ptep || pte_special(*ptep))
>  		return ULONG_MAX;
> @@ -353,13 +354,14 @@ static int mce_find_instr_ea_and_pfn(struct pt_regs *regs, uint64_t *addr,
>  	unsigned long pfn, instr_addr;
>  	struct instruction_op op;
>  	struct pt_regs tmp = *regs;
> +	unsigned int shift;
>  
> -	pfn = addr_to_pfn(regs, regs->nip);
> +	pfn = addr_to_pfn(regs, regs->nip, &shift);
>  	if (pfn != ULONG_MAX) {
> -		instr_addr = (pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) + (regs->nip & ~PAGE_MASK);
> +		instr_addr = (pfn << shift) + (regs->nip & ((1 << shift) - 1));
>  		instr = *(unsigned int *)(instr_addr);
>  		if (!analyse_instr(&op, &tmp, instr)) {
> -			pfn = addr_to_pfn(regs, op.ea);
> +			pfn = addr_to_pfn(regs, op.ea, &shift);
>  			*addr = op.ea;
>  			*phys_addr = (pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
>  			return 0;
> @@ -437,7 +439,8 @@ static int mce_handle_ierror(struct pt_regs *regs,
>  				unsigned long pfn;
>  
>  				if (get_paca()->in_mce < MAX_MCE_DEPTH) {
> -					pfn = addr_to_pfn(regs, regs->nip);
> +					pfn = addr_to_pfn(regs, regs->nip,
> +							NULL);
>  					if (pfn != ULONG_MAX) {
>  						*phys_addr =
>  							(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);



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