The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
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From: Tony Luck tony.luck@intel.com Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:54:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] x86/mce: Fix incorrect "Machine check from unknown source" message
Some injection testing resulted in the following console log:
mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 22: Machine Check Exception: f Bank 1: bd80000000100134 mce: [Hardware Error]: RIP 10:<ffffffffc05292dd> {pmem_do_bvec+0x11d/0x330 [nd_pmem]} mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC c51a63035d52 ADDR 3234bc4000 MISC 88 mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:50654 TIME 1526502199 SOCKET 0 APIC 38 microcode 2000043 mce: [Hardware Error]: Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii' Kernel panic - not syncing: Machine check from unknown source
This confused everybody because the first line quite clearly shows that we found a logged error in "Bank 1", while the last line says "unknown source".
The problem is that the Linux code doesn't do the right thing for a local machine check that results in a fatal error.
It turns out that we know very early in the handler whether the machine check is fatal. The call to mce_no_way_out() has checked all the banks for the CPU that took the local machine check. If it says we must crash, we can do so right away with the right messages.
We do scan all the banks again. This means that we might initially not see a problem, but during the second scan find something fatal. If this happens we print a slightly different message (so I can see if it actually every happens).
[ bp: Remove unneeded severity assignment. ]
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Ashok Raj ashok.raj@intel.com Cc: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: Qiuxu Zhuo qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com Cc: linux-edac linux-edac@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/52e049a497e86fd0b71c529651def8871c804df0.1527283897...
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c index 7e6f51a9d917..e93670d736a6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c @@ -1207,13 +1207,18 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) lmce = m.mcgstatus & MCG_STATUS_LMCES;
/* + * Local machine check may already know that we have to panic. + * Broadcast machine check begins rendezvous in mce_start() * Go through all banks in exclusion of the other CPUs. This way we * don't report duplicated events on shared banks because the first one - * to see it will clear it. If this is a Local MCE, then no need to - * perform rendezvous. + * to see it will clear it. */ - if (!lmce) + if (lmce) { + if (no_way_out) + mce_panic("Fatal local machine check", &m, msg); + } else { order = mce_start(&no_way_out); + }
for (i = 0; i < cfg->banks; i++) { __clear_bit(i, toclear); @@ -1289,12 +1294,17 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) no_way_out = worst >= MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY; } else { /* - * Local MCE skipped calling mce_reign() - * If we found a fatal error, we need to panic here. + * If there was a fatal machine check we should have + * already called mce_panic earlier in this function. + * Since we re-read the banks, we might have found + * something new. Check again to see if we found a + * fatal error. We call "mce_severity()" again to + * make sure we have the right "msg". */ - if (worst >= MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY && mca_cfg.tolerant < 3) - mce_panic("Machine check from unknown source", - NULL, NULL); + if (worst >= MCE_PANIC_SEVERITY && mca_cfg.tolerant < 3) { + mce_severity(&m, cfg->tolerant, &msg, true); + mce_panic("Local fatal machine check!", &m, msg); + } }
/*