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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-07-11 10:20:47 -0700
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-07-11 10:20:47 -0700
commit6751ed65dc6642af64f7b8a440a75563c8aab7ae (patch)
tree8736d4c2b3aa00c6a4f39d2e6cba4805720c2874 /include/linux/mm.h
parent6887a4131da3adaab011613776d865f4bcfb5678 (diff)
x86/mce: Fix siginfo_t->si_addr value for non-recoverable memory faults
In commit dad1743e5993f1 ("x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine check recovery if it is safe") we fixed mce_notify_process() to force a signal to the current process if it was not restartable (RIPV bit not set in MCG_STATUS). But doing it here means that the process doesn't get told the virtual address of the fault via siginfo_t->si_addr. This would prevent application level recovery from the fault. Make a new MF_MUST_KILL flag bit for memory_failure() et al. to use so that we will provide the right information with the signal. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.4+
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diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index b36d08ce5c5..f9f279cf5b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1591,6 +1591,7 @@ void vmemmap_populate_print_last(void);
enum mf_flags {
MF_COUNT_INCREASED = 1 << 0,
MF_ACTION_REQUIRED = 1 << 1,
+ MF_MUST_KILL = 1 << 2,
};
extern int memory_failure(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags);
extern void memory_failure_queue(unsigned long pfn, int trapno, int flags);