Re: [PATCH v3] x86/fault: Send a SIGBUS to user process always for hwpoison page access.

[Aili Yao <yaoaili@kingsoft.com>]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 11:00:28 -0800
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> > On Mar 8, 2021, at 10:31 AM, Luck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com> wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >> 
> >> Can you point me at that SIGBUS code in a current kernel?  
> > 
> > It is in kill_me_maybe().  mce_vaddr is setup when we disassemble whatever get_user()
> > or copy from user variant was in use in the kernel when the poison memory was consumed.
> > 
> >        if (p->mce_vaddr != (void __user *)-1l) {
> >                force_sig_mceerr(BUS_MCEERR_AR, p->mce_vaddr, PAGE_SHIFT);  
> 
> Hmm. On the one hand, no one has complained yet. On the other hand, hardware that supports this isn’t exactly common.
> 
> We may need some actual ABI design here. We also need to make sure that things like io_uring accesses or, more generally, anything using the use_mm / use_temporary_mm ends up either sending no signal or sending a signal to the right target.
> 
> > 
> > Would it be any better if we used the BUS_MCEERR_AO code that goes into siginfo?  
> 
> Dunno.

I have one thought here but don't know if it's proper:

Previous patch use force_sig_mceerr to the user process for such a scenario; with this method
The SIGBUS can't be ignored as force_sig_mceerr() was designed to.

If the user process don't want this signal, will it set signal config to ignore?
Maybe we can use a send_sig_mceerr() instead of force_sig_mceerr(), if process want to
ignore the SIGBUS, then it will ignore that, or it can also process the SIGBUS?

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Thanks!
Aili Yao