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From: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@datenkhaos.de>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "Ghannam, Yazen" <Yazen.Ghannam@amd.com>,
	"linux-edac@vger.kernel.org" <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"tony.luck@intel.com" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: [3/3] x86/MCE/AMD: Get address from already initialized block
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 08:49:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180517064930.GA26421@probook> (raw)

On 2018 Mai 17, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:39:54AM +0200, Johannes Hirte wrote:
> > The out-of-bound access happens in get_block_address:
> > 
> > 	if (bankp && bankp->blocks) {
> > 		struct threshold_block *blockp blockp = &bankp->blocks[block];
> > 
> > with block=1. This doesn't exists. I don't even find any array here.
> > There is a linked list, created in allocate_threshold_blocks. On my
> > system I get 17 lists with one element each.
> 
> Yes, what a mess this is. ;-\
> 
> There's no such thing as ->blocks[block] array. We assign simply the
> threshold_block to it in allocate_threshold_blocks:
> 
> 	per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu)[bank]->blocks = b;
> 
> And I can't say the design of this thing is really friendly but it is
> still no excuse that I missed that during review. Grrr.
> 
> So, Yazen, what really needs to happen here is to iterate the
> bank->blocks->miscj list to find the block you're looking for and return
> its address, the opposite to this here:
> 
>         if (per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu)[bank]->blocks) {
>                 list_add(&b->miscj,
>                          &per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu)[bank]->blocks->miscj);
>         } else {
>                 per_cpu(threshold_banks, cpu)[bank]->blocks = b;
>         }
> 
> and don't forget to look at ->blocks itself.
> 
> And then you need to make sure that searching for block addresses still
> works when resuming from suspend so that you can avoid the RDMSR IPIs.
> 

Maybe I'm missing something, but those RDMSR IPSs don't happen on
pre-SMCA systems, right? So the caching should be avoided here, cause
the whole lookup looks more expensive to me than the simple switch-block
in get_block_address.

             reply	other threads:[~2018-05-17  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-17  6:49 Johannes Hirte [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-05-17 19:33 [3/3] x86/MCE/AMD: Get address from already initialized block Boris Petkov
2018-05-17 19:29 Johannes Hirte
2018-05-17 14:05 Yazen Ghannam
2018-05-17 13:44 Boris Petkov
2018-05-17 13:04 Yazen Ghannam
2018-05-17 10:41 Boris Petkov
2018-05-16 22:46 Boris Petkov
2018-05-15  9:39 Johannes Hirte
2018-04-17 13:31 Yazen Ghannam
2018-04-16 11:56 Johannes Hirte
2018-04-14  0:42 Johannes Hirte
2018-02-08 15:26 Borislav Petkov
2018-02-01 18:48 Yazen Ghannam

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