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Commit f9781bb1 authored by Jane Chu's avatar Jane Chu Committed by Borislav Petkov
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x86/mce: Retrieve poison range from hardware



When memory poison consumption machine checks fire, MCE notifier
handlers like nfit_handle_mce() record the impacted physical address
range which is reported by the hardware in the MCi_MISC MSR. The error
information includes data about blast radius, i.e. how many cachelines
did the hardware determine are impacted. A recent change

  7917f9cd ("acpi/nfit: rely on mce->misc to determine poison granularity")

updated nfit_handle_mce() to stop hard coding the blast radius value of
1 cacheline, and instead rely on the blast radius reported in 'struct
mce' which can be up to 4K (64 cachelines).

It turns out that apei_mce_report_mem_error() had a similar problem in
that it hard coded a blast radius of 4K rather than reading the blast
radius from the error information. Fix apei_mce_report_mem_error() to
convey the proper poison granularity.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7ed50fd8-521e-cade-77b1-738b8bfb8502@oracle.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220826233851.1319100-1-jane.chu@oracle.com
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