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If an exception needs to be handled while reading an MSR - which is in most of the cases caused by a #GP on a non-existent MSR - then this is most likely the incarnation of a BIOS or a hardware bug. Such bug violates the architectural guarantee that MCA banks are present with all MSRs belonging to them. The proper fix belongs in the hardware/firmware - not in the kernel. Handling an #MC exception which is raised while an NMI is being handled would cause the nasty NMI nesting issue because of the shortcoming of IRET of reenabling NMIs when executed. And the machine is in an #MC context already so <Deity> be at its side. Tracing MSR accesses while in #MC is another no-no due to tracing being inherently a bad idea in atomic context: vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: do_machine_check()+0x4a: call to mce_rdmsrl() leaves .noinstr.text section so remove all that "additional" functionality from mce_rdmsrl() and provide it with a special exception handler which panics the machine when that MSR is not accessible. The exception handler prints a human-readable message explaining what the panic reason is but, what is more, it panics while in the #GP handler and latter won't have executed an IRET, thus opening the NMI nesting issue in the case when the #MC has happened while handling an NMI. (#MC itself won't be reenabled until MCG_STATUS hasn't been cleared). Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [ Add missing prototypes for ex_handler_* ] Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200906212130.GA28456@zn.tnic |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.