[PATCH 6.1 52/64] ACPI: APEI: send SIGBUS to current task if synchronous memory error not recovered

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17T20:47:54Z

From: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>

[ Upstream commit 79a5ae3c4c5eb7e38e0ebe4d6bf602d296080060 ]

If a synchronous error is detected as a result of user-space process
triggering a 2-bit uncorrected error, the CPU will take a synchronous
error exception such as Synchronous External Abort (SEA) on Arm64. The
kernel will queue a memory_failure() work which poisons the related
page, unmaps the page, and then sends a SIGBUS to the process, so that
a system wide panic can be avoided.

However, no memory_failure() work will be queued when abnormal
synchronous errors occur. These errors can include situations like
invalid PA, unexpected severity, no memory failure config support,
invalid GUID section, etc. In such a case, the user-space process will
trigger SEA again. This loop can potentially exceed the platform
firmware threshold or even trigger a kernel hard lockup, leading to a
system reboot.

Fix it by performing a force kill if no memory_failure() work is queued
for synchronous errors.

Signed-off-by: Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250714114212.31660-2-xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com
[ rjw: Changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
[ Using pr_err instead of dev_err due to ghes doesn't have member "dev"]
Signed-off-by: Rajani Kantha <681739313@139.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
@@ -684,6 +684,16 @@ static bool ghes_do_proc(struct ghes *gh
}
}

+ /*
+ * If no memory failure work is queued for abnormal synchronous
+ * errors, do a force kill.
+ */
+ if (sync && !queued) {
+ pr_err(GHES_PFX "%s:%d: synchronous unrecoverable error (SIGBUS)\n",
+ current->comm, task_pid_nr(current));
+ force_sig(SIGBUS);
+ }
+
return queued;
}