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[PATCH v15 4/9] arm64: enable recover from synchronous external abort in kernel context

From: Ruidong Tian <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-18 09:22:13
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds

For the arm64 kernel, when it processes hardware memory errors for
synchronize notifications(do_sea()), if the errors is consumed within the
kernel, the current processing is panic. However, it is not optimal.

Take copy_from/to_user for example, If ld* triggers a memory error, even in
kernel mode, only the associated process is affected. Killing the user
process and isolating the corrupt page is a better choice.

Add new fixup type EX_TYPE_KACCESS_SEA to identify insn that can recover
from memory errors triggered by access to kernel memory, and this fixup
type is used in __arch_copy_to_user(), This make the regular copy_to_user()
will handle kernel memory errors.

[Ruidong: modify subject and rename EX_TYPE_KACCESS_ERR_ZERO_MEM_ERR to
EX_TYPE_KACCESS_SEA]

Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ruidong Tian <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-extable.h |  5 +++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h |  4 ++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/extable.h     |  1 +
 arch/arm64/lib/copy_to_user.S        | 10 +++++-----
 arch/arm64/mm/extable.c              | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/mm/fault.c                | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
 6 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-extable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-extable.h
index 06b19023939b..8450ec5a3af6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-extable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-extable.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #define EX_TYPE_ACCESS_ERR_ZERO		2
 #define EX_TYPE_UACCESS_CPY		3
 #define EX_TYPE_LOAD_UNALIGNED_ZEROPAD	4
+#define EX_TYPE_KACCESS_SEA		5
 
 /* Data fields for EX_TYPE_ACCESS_ERR_ZERO */
 #define EX_DATA_REG_ERR_SHIFT	0
@@ -76,6 +77,10 @@
 	__ASM_EXTABLE_RAW(\insn, \fixup, EX_TYPE_UACCESS_CPY, \uaccess_is_write)
 	.endm
 
+	.macro          _asm_extable_kaccess_sea, insn, fixup
+	__ASM_EXTABLE_RAW(\insn, \fixup, EX_TYPE_KACCESS_SEA, 0)
+	.endm
+
 #else /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
 
 #include <linux/stringify.h>
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h
index 12aa6a283249..27bf8edbf597 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/asm-uaccess.h
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ alternative_else_nop_endif
 	.endm
 #endif
 
+#define KERNEL_SEA(l, x...)			\
+9999:	x;					\
+	_asm_extable_kaccess_sea	9999b, l
+
 #define USER(l, x...)				\
 9999:	x;					\
 	_asm_extable_uaccess	9999b, l
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/extable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/extable.h
index 9dc39612bdf5..47c851d7df4f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/extable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/extable.h
@@ -48,4 +48,5 @@ bool ex_handler_bpf(const struct exception_table_entry *ex,
 #endif /* !CONFIG_BPF_JIT */
 
 bool fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long esr);
+bool fixup_exception_me(struct pt_regs *regs);
 #endif
diff --git a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_to_user.S b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_to_user.S
index 819f2e3fc7a9..6103f5b0a2d0 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/lib/copy_to_user.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/lib/copy_to_user.S
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  *	x0 - bytes not copied
  */
 	.macro ldrb1 reg, ptr, val
-	ldrb  \reg, [\ptr], \val
+	KERNEL_SEA(9998f, ldrb  \reg, [\ptr], \val)
 	.endm
 
 	.macro strb1 reg, ptr, val
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 	.endm
 
 	.macro ldrh1 reg, ptr, val
-	ldrh  \reg, [\ptr], \val
+	KERNEL_SEA(9998f, ldrh  \reg, [\ptr], \val)
 	.endm
 
 	.macro strh1 reg, ptr, val
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 	.endm
 
 	.macro ldr1 reg, ptr, val
-	ldr \reg, [\ptr], \val
+	KERNEL_SEA(9998f, ldr \reg, [\ptr], \val)
 	.endm
 
 	.macro str1 reg, ptr, val
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 	.endm
 
 	.macro ldp1 reg1, reg2, ptr, val
-	ldp \reg1, \reg2, [\ptr], \val
+	KERNEL_SEA(9998f, ldp \reg1, \reg2, [\ptr], \val)
 	.endm
 
 	.macro stp1 reg1, reg2, ptr, val
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ SYM_FUNC_START(__arch_copy_to_user)
 9997:	cmp	dst, dstin
 	b.ne	9998f
 	// Before being absolutely sure we couldn't copy anything, try harder
-	ldrb	tmp1w, [srcin]
+KERNEL_SEA(9998f, ldrb	tmp1w, [srcin])
 USER(9998f, sttrb tmp1w, [dst])
 	add	dst, dst, #1
 9998:	sub	x0, end, dst			// bytes not copied
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/extable.c b/arch/arm64/mm/extable.c
index 76b18780f1f9..20a7a9eeed94 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/extable.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/extable.c
@@ -109,7 +109,35 @@ bool fixup_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long esr)
 		return ex_handler_uaccess_cpy(ex, regs, esr);
 	case EX_TYPE_LOAD_UNALIGNED_ZEROPAD:
 		return ex_handler_load_unaligned_zeropad(ex, regs);
+	/*
+	 * Kernel address faults (e.g. copy_to_user reading from kernel src).
+	 * Do not fixup here: a translation fault on a kernel address is a
+	 * kernel bug (e.g. NULL pointer dereference) and must oops.
+	 * Only SEA (hardware memory error) should be fixed up, which is
+	 * handled by fixup_exception_me() through the do_sea path.
+	 */
+	case EX_TYPE_KACCESS_SEA:
+		return false;
 	}
 
 	BUG();
 }
+
+bool fixup_exception_me(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	const struct exception_table_entry *ex;
+
+	ex = search_exception_tables(instruction_pointer(regs));
+	if (!ex)
+		return false;
+
+	switch (ex->type) {
+	case EX_TYPE_ACCESS_ERR_ZERO:
+		return ex_handler_access_err_zero(ex, regs);
+	case EX_TYPE_KACCESS_SEA:
+		regs->pc = get_ex_fixup(ex);
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 0f3c5c7ca054..b775c0928a53 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -858,21 +858,35 @@ static int do_bad(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	return 1; /* "fault" */
 }
 
+/*
+ * APEI claimed this as a firmware-first notification.
+ * Some processing deferred to task_work before ret_to_user().
+ */
+static int do_apei_claim_sea(struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = apei_claim_sea(regs);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	if (!user_mode(regs)) {
+		if (!fixup_exception_me(regs))
+			return -ENOENT;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static int do_sea(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	const struct fault_info *inf;
 	unsigned long siaddr;
 
-	inf = esr_to_fault_info(esr);
-
-	if (user_mode(regs) && apei_claim_sea(regs) == 0) {
-		/*
-		 * APEI claimed this as a firmware-first notification.
-		 * Some processing deferred to task_work before ret_to_user().
-		 */
+	if (do_apei_claim_sea(regs) == 0)
 		return 0;
-	}
 
+	inf = esr_to_fault_info(esr);
 	if (esr & ESR_ELx_FnV) {
 		siaddr = 0;
 	} else {
-- 
2.39.3

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