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authorTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-05-23 17:14:22 -0400
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-05-23 17:22:44 -0400
commit875e26648cf9b6db9d8dc07b7959d7c61fb3f49c (patch)
tree8854063a634093b107e15f79d8c8000b5541c7bd /arch/x86
parenta129a7c84582629741e5fa6f40026efcd7a65bd4 (diff)
x86/mce: Fix check for processor context when machine check was taken.
Linus pointed out that there was no value is checking whether m->ip was zero - because zero is a legimate value. If we have a reliable (or faked in the VM86 case) "m->cs" we can use it to tell whether we were in user mode or kernelwhen the machine check hit. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c16
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
index 0c82091b1652..1ccd453903d8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-severity.c
@@ -165,15 +165,19 @@ static struct severity {
165}; 165};
166 166
167/* 167/*
168 * If the EIPV bit is set, it means the saved IP is the 168 * If mcgstatus indicated that ip/cs on the stack were
169 * instruction which caused the MCE. 169 * no good, then "m->cs" will be zero and we will have
170 * to assume the worst case (IN_KERNEL) as we actually
171 * have no idea what we were executing when the machine
172 * check hit.
173 * If we do have a good "m->cs" (or a faked one in the
174 * case we were executing in VM86 mode) we can use it to
175 * distinguish an exception taken in user from from one
176 * taken in the kernel.
170 */ 177 */
171static int error_context(struct mce *m) 178static int error_context(struct mce *m)
172{ 179{
173 if (m->mcgstatus & MCG_STATUS_EIPV) 180 return ((m->cs & 3) == 3) ? IN_USER : IN_KERNEL;
174 return (m->ip && (m->cs & 3) == 3) ? IN_USER : IN_KERNEL;
175 /* Unknown, assume kernel */
176 return IN_KERNEL;
177} 181}
178 182
179int mce_severity(struct mce *m, int tolerant, char **msg) 183int mce_severity(struct mce *m, int tolerant, char **msg)