Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mce: Avoid infinite loop for copy from user recovery

Borislav Petkov
2021-01-13T16:19:46Z

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 04:06:09PM +0000, Luck, Tony wrote:
> Maybe the other difference in approach between Andy and me is whether to
> go for a solution that covers all the corner cases, or just make an incremental
> improvement that allows for recover in some useful subset of remaining fatal
> cases, but still dies in other cases.

Does that mean more core code surgery?

> I'm happy to replace error messages with ones that are more descriptive and
> helpful to humans.

Yap, that: "Multiple copyin" with something more understandable to users...

Thx.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.