From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage_access()
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 11:06:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408922a2-ec1a-4e60-841a-90714a3310de@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aEFdoYSKqvqK572c@li-008a6a4c-3549-11b2-a85c-c5cc2836eea2.ibm.com>
Am 05.06.25 um 11:04 schrieb Alexander Gordeev:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 07:40:43PM +0200, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
>>>>> This could trigger WARN_ON_ONCE() in handle_fault_error_nolock():
>>>>>
>>>>> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!si_code))
>>>>> si_code = SEGV_MAPERR;
>>>>>
>>>>> Would this warning be justified in this case (aka user_mode(regs) ==
>>>>> true)?
>>>>
>>>> I think so, because if we are in usermode, we should never trigger
>>>> faulthandler_disabled()
>>>
>>> I think I do not get you. We are in a system call and also in_atomic(),
>>> so faulthandler_disabled() is true and handle_fault_error_nolock(regs, 0)
>>> is called (above).
>>
>> what is the psw in regs?
>> is it not the one that was being used when the exception was triggered?
>
> Hmm, right. I assume is_kernel_fault() returns false not because
> user_mode(regs) is true, but because we access the secondary AS.
>
> Still, to me it feels wrong to trigger that warning due to a user
> process activity. But anyway:
>
> Acked-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Can we trigger a WARN from userspace?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-05 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-03 13:49 [PATCH] s390/mm: Fix in_atomic() handling in do_secure_storage_access() Heiko Carstens
2025-06-04 12:16 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2025-06-04 16:27 ` Alexander Gordeev
2025-06-04 16:48 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2025-06-04 17:29 ` Alexander Gordeev
2025-06-04 17:40 ` Claudio Imbrenda
2025-06-05 9:04 ` Alexander Gordeev
2025-06-05 9:06 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2025-06-05 10:07 ` Heiko Carstens
2025-06-05 10:21 ` Christian Borntraeger
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