From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
To: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK machine checks
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 16:39:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d32c5862-1e64-496c-bf03-5928c2ea1dfd@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260806163739.7b1ee8fd@p-imbrenda>
Am 06.08.26 um 16:37 schrieb Claudio Imbrenda:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 14:52:41 +0200
> Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Channel-subsystem damage machine checks are for the host channel
>> subsystem. The guest channel subsystem is emulated in the userspace VMM.
>> There is no point in forwarding such machine checks into the guest.
>>
>> This also simplifies the machine check reinjection and avoids kfree of a
>> stack variable as reported by sashiko. There might be still machine
>> checks that have the ck bit set with another bit (like instruction
>> damage), mask out the CK bit in s390_backup_mcck_info(), like the CP and
>> ED bits already are.
>>
>> Fixes: 4d62fcc0b692 ("KVM: s390: Inject machine check into the guest")
>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> arch/s390/include/asm/nmi.h | 1 +
>> arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c | 4 ++--
>> arch/s390/kvm/interrupt.c | 24 ++++++++----------------
>> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/nmi.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/nmi.h
>> index 6454c1531854..dd26c20bd231 100644
>> --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/nmi.h
>> +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/nmi.h
>> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
>> #define MCCK_CODE_SYSTEM_DAMAGE BIT(63)
>> #define MCCK_CODE_EXT_DAMAGE BIT(63 - 5)
>> #define MCCK_CODE_CP BIT(63 - 9)
>> +#define MCCK_CODE_CK BIT(63 - 11)
>> #define MCCK_CODE_STG_ERROR BIT(63 - 16)
>> #define MCCK_CODE_STG_KEY_ERROR BIT(63 - 18)
>> #define MCCK_CODE_STG_DEGRAD BIT(63 - 19)
>> diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c
>> index e17a59d4d5a4..652b98795243 100644
>> --- a/arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c
>> +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/nmi.c
>> @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static void notrace s390_backup_mcck_info(struct pt_regs *regs)
>> sie_page = container_of(sie_block, struct sie_page, sie_block);
>> mcck_backup = &sie_page->mcck_info;
>> mcck_backup->mcic = get_lowcore()->mcck_interruption_code &
>> - ~(MCCK_CODE_CP | MCCK_CODE_EXT_DAMAGE);
>> + ~(MCCK_CODE_CP | MCCK_CODE_EXT_DAMAGE | MCCK_CODE_CK);
>
> ... here, instead of duplicating it?
>
>> mcck_backup->ext_damage_code = get_lowcore()->external_damage_code;
>> mcck_backup->failing_storage_address = get_lowcore()->failing_storage_address;
>> }
>> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(s390_backup_mcck_info);
>> #define ED_STP_ISLAND 6 /* External damage STP island check */
>> #define ED_STP_SYNC 7 /* External damage STP sync check */
>>
>> -#define MCCK_CODE_NO_GUEST (MCCK_CODE_CP | MCCK_CODE_EXT_DAMAGE)
>> +#define MCCK_CODE_NO_GUEST (MCCK_CODE_CP | MCCK_CODE_EXT_DAMAGE | MCCK_CODE_CK)
>
> it looks like this macro here should have been used above... ^
Yes, see my comment in the cover letter. We would need to move this define.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-06 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-06 12:52 [PATCH 0/1] address one of sashiko pre-existing issues Christian Borntraeger
2026-08-06 12:52 ` [PATCH 1/1] KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK machine checks Christian Borntraeger
2026-08-06 14:20 ` Heiko Carstens
2026-08-06 14:37 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-08-06 14:39 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2026-08-06 13:04 ` [PATCH on master] " Christian Borntraeger
2026-08-06 13:16 ` sashiko-bot
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