[PATCH] powerpc/traps: restore recoverability of machine_check interrupts

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Sat Oct 13 20:16:22 AEDT 2018


commit b96672dd840f ("powerpc: Machine check interrupt is a non-
maskable interrupt") added a call to nmi_enter() at the beginning of
machine check restart exception handler. Due to that, in_interrupt()
always returns true regardless of the state before entering the
exception, and die() panics even when the system was not already in
interrupt.

This patch calls nmi_exit() before calling die() in order to restore
the interrupt state we had before calling nmi_enter()

Fixes: b96672dd840f ("powerpc: Machine check interrupt is a non-maskable interrupt")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index fd58749b4d6b..4f880c2a6e4c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -765,12 +765,17 @@ void machine_check_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	if (check_io_access(regs))
 		goto bail;
 
-	die("Machine check", regs, SIGBUS);
-
 	/* Must die if the interrupt is not recoverable */
 	if (!(regs->msr & MSR_RI))
 		nmi_panic(regs, "Unrecoverable Machine check");
 
+	if (!nested)
+		nmi_exit();
+
+	die("Machine check", regs, SIGBUS);
+
+	return;
+
 bail:
 	if (!nested)
 		nmi_exit();
-- 
2.13.3



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