The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/hwpoison: do not send SIGBUS to processes with recovered clean pages has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-hwpoison-do-not-send-sigbus-to-processes-with-recovered-clean-pages.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
------------------------------------------------------ From: Shuai Xue xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com Subject: mm/hwpoison: do not send SIGBUS to processes with recovered clean pages Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 19:28:51 +0800
When an uncorrected memory error is consumed there is a race between the CMCI from the memory controller reporting an uncorrected error with a UCNA signature, and the core reporting and SRAR signature machine check when the data is about to be consumed.
- Background: why *UN*corrected errors tied to *C*MCI in Intel platform [1]
Prior to Icelake memory controllers reported patrol scrub events that detected a previously unseen uncorrected error in memory by signaling a broadcast machine check with an SRAO (Software Recoverable Action Optional) signature in the machine check bank. This was overkill because it's not an urgent problem that no core is on the verge of consuming that bad data. It's also found that multi SRAO UCE may cause nested MCE interrupts and finally become an IERR.
Hence, Intel downgrades the machine check bank signature of patrol scrub from SRAO to UCNA (Uncorrected, No Action required), and signal changed to #CMCI. Just to add to the confusion, Linux does take an action (in uc_decode_notifier()) to try to offline the page despite the UC*NA* signature name.
- Background: why #CMCI and #MCE race when poison is consuming in Intel platform [1]
Having decided that CMCI/UCNA is the best action for patrol scrub errors, the memory controller uses it for reads too. But the memory controller is executing asynchronously from the core, and can't tell the difference between a "real" read and a speculative read. So it will do CMCI/UCNA if an error is found in any read.
Thus:
1) Core is clever and thinks address A is needed soon, issues a speculative read. 2) Core finds it is going to use address A soon after sending the read request 3) The CMCI from the memory controller is in a race with MCE from the core that will soon try to retire the load from address A.
Quite often (because speculation has got better) the CMCI from the memory controller is delivered before the core is committed to the instruction reading address A, so the interrupt is taken, and Linux offlines the page (marking it as poison).
- Why user process is killed for instr case
Commit 046545a661af ("mm/hwpoison: fix error page recovered but reported "not recovered"") tries to fix noise message "Memory error not recovered" and skips duplicate SIGBUSs due to the race. But it also introduced a bug that kill_accessing_process() return -EHWPOISON for instr case, as result, kill_me_maybe() send a SIGBUS to user process.
If the CMCI wins that race, the page is marked poisoned when uc_decode_notifier() calls memory_failure(). For dirty pages, memory_failure() invokes try_to_unmap() with the TTU_HWPOISON flag, converting the PTE to a hwpoison entry. As a result, kill_accessing_process():
- call walk_page_range() and return 1 regardless of whether try_to_unmap() succeeds or fails, - call kill_proc() to make sure a SIGBUS is sent - return -EHWPOISON to indicate that SIGBUS is already sent to the process and kill_me_maybe() doesn't have to send it again.
However, for clean pages, the TTU_HWPOISON flag is cleared, leaving the PTE unchanged and not converted to a hwpoison entry. Conversely, for clean pages where PTE entries are not marked as hwpoison, kill_accessing_process() returns -EFAULT, causing kill_me_maybe() to send a SIGBUS.
Console log looks like this:
Memory failure: 0x827ca68: corrupted page was clean: dropped without side effects Memory failure: 0x827ca68: recovery action for clean LRU page: Recovered Memory failure: 0x827ca68: already hardware poisoned mce: Memory error not recovered
To fix it, return 0 for "corrupted page was clean", preventing an unnecessary SIGBUS to user process.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250217063335.22257-1-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.c... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250312112852.82415-3-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: 046545a661af ("mm/hwpoison: fix error page recovered but reported "not recovered"") Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com Tested-by: Tony Luck tony.luck@intel.com Acked-by: Miaohe Lin linmiaohe@huawei.com Cc: Baolin Wang baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Cc: Borislav Betkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas@arm.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" hpa@zytor.com Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@redhat.com Cc: Jane Chu jane.chu@oracle.com Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko@kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org Cc: Naoya Horiguchi nao.horiguchi@gmail.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Ruidong Tian tianruidong@linux.alibaba.com Cc: Thomas Gleinxer tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Yazen Ghannam yazen.ghannam@amd.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/memory-failure.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-hwpoison-do-not-send-sigbus-to-processes-with-recovered-clean-pages +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -881,12 +881,17 @@ static int kill_accessing_process(struct mmap_read_lock(p->mm); ret = walk_page_range(p->mm, 0, TASK_SIZE, &hwpoison_walk_ops, (void *)&priv); + /* + * ret = 1 when CMCI wins, regardless of whether try_to_unmap() + * succeeds or fails, then kill the process with SIGBUS. + * ret = 0 when poison page is a clean page and it's dropped, no + * SIGBUS is needed. + */ if (ret == 1 && priv.tk.addr) kill_proc(&priv.tk, pfn, flags); - else - ret = 0; mmap_read_unlock(p->mm); - return ret > 0 ? -EHWPOISON : -EFAULT; + + return ret > 0 ? -EHWPOISON : 0; }
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com are