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Tony Luck 26f8c38bb4 x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Don't unconditionally unmap kernel 1:1 pages
commit fd0e786d9d upstream.

In the following commit:

  ce0fa3e56a ("x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages")

... we added code to memory_failure() to unmap the page from the
kernel 1:1 virtual address space to avoid speculative access to the
page logging additional errors.

But memory_failure() may not always succeed in taking the page offline,
especially if the page belongs to the kernel.  This can happen if
there are too many corrected errors on a page and either mcelog(8)
or drivers/ras/cec.c asks to take a page offline.

Since we remove the 1:1 mapping early in memory_failure(), we can
end up with the page unmapped, but still in use. On the next access
the kernel crashes :-(

There are also various debug paths that call memory_failure() to simulate
occurrence of an error. Since there is no actual error in memory, we
don't need to map out the page for those cases.

Revert most of the previous attempt and keep the solution local to
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c. Unmap the page only when:

	1) there is a real error
	2) memory_failure() succeeds.

All of this only applies to 64-bit systems. 32-bit kernel doesn't map
all of memory into kernel space. It isn't worth adding the code to unmap
the piece that is mapped because nobody would run a 32-bit kernel on a
machine that has recoverable machine checks.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Robert (Persistent Memory) <elliott@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #v4.14
Fixes: ce0fa3e56a ("x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-02-22 15:42:31 +01:00
arch x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Don't unconditionally unmap kernel 1:1 pages 2018-02-22 15:42:31 +01:00
block blk-wbt: account flush requests correctly 2018-02-22 15:42:29 +01:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
Documentation ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option 2018-02-22 15:42:26 +01:00
drivers usb: Move USB_UHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_* out of USB_SUPPORT 2018-02-22 15:42:31 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs Btrfs: fix unexpected -EEXIST when creating new inode 2018-02-22 15:42:30 +01:00
include x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Don't unconditionally unmap kernel 1:1 pages 2018-02-22 15:42:31 +01:00
init kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel tracing: Fix parsing of globs with a wildcard at the beginning 2018-02-22 15:42:28 +01:00
lib kmemcheck: rip it out 2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
mm x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Don't unconditionally unmap kernel 1:1 pages 2018-02-22 15:42:31 +01:00
net 9p/trans_virtio: discard zero-length reply 2018-02-22 15:42:30 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for xdp1 2017-12-20 10:10:31 +01:00
scripts kmemcheck: rip it out 2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
security ima/policy: fix parsing of fsuuid 2018-02-03 17:38:53 +01:00
sound ALSA: seq: Fix racy pool initializations 2018-02-22 15:42:31 +01:00
tools selftests/x86/mpx: Fix incorrect bounds with old _sigfault 2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Handle CPU_PM_ENTER_FAILED 2018-02-16 20:23:03 +01:00
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Linux kernel
============

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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.