4.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> commit 17fea54bf0ab34fa09a06bbde2f58ed7bbdf9299 upstream. Derek noticed that a critical MCE gets reported with the wrong error type description: [Hardware Error]: CPU 34: Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank 9: f200003f000100b0 [Hardware Error]: RIP !INEXACT! 10:<ffffffff812e14c1> {intel_idle+0xb1/0x170} [Hardware Error]: TSC 49587b8e321cb [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:306e4 TIME 1431561296 SOCKET 1 APIC 29 [Hardware Error]: Some CPUs didn't answer in synchronization [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Invalid ^^^^^^^ The last line with 'Invalid' should have printed the high level MCE error type description we get from mce_severity, i.e. something like: [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Action required: data load error in a user process this happens due to the fact that mce_no_way_out() iterates over all MCA banks and possibly overwrites the @msg argument which is used in the panic printing later. Change behavior to take the message of only and the (last) critical MCE it detects. Reported-by: Derek <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -705,6 +705,7 @@ static int mce_no_way_out(struct mce *m, struct pt_regs *regs) { int i, ret = 0; + char *tmp; for (i = 0; i < mca_cfg.banks; i++) { m->status = mce_rdmsrl(MSR_IA32_MCx_STATUS(i)); @@ -713,9 +714,11 @@ static int mce_no_way_out(struct mce *m, if (quirk_no_way_out) quirk_no_way_out(i, m, regs); } - if (mce_severity(m, mca_cfg.tolerant, msg, true) >= - MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY) + + if (mce_severity(m, mca_cfg.tolerant, &tmp, true) >= MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY) { + *msg = tmp; ret = 1; + } } return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
