diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/apei.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/apei.c
index 717192915f28..8ed341714686 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/apei.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/apei.c
@@ -29,15 +29,26 @@
 void apei_mce_report_mem_error(int severity, struct cper_sec_mem_err *mem_err)
 {
 	struct mce m;
+	int lsb;
 
 	if (!(mem_err->validation_bits & CPER_MEM_VALID_PA))
 		return;
 
+	/*
+	 * Even if the ->validation_bits are set for address mask,
+	 * to be extra safe, check and reject an error radius '0',
+	 * and fall back to the default page size.
+	 */
+	if (mem_err->validation_bits & CPER_MEM_VALID_PA_MASK)
+		lsb = find_first_bit((void *)&mem_err->physical_addr_mask, PAGE_SHIFT);
+	else
+		lsb = PAGE_SHIFT;
+
 	mce_setup(&m);
 	m.bank = -1;
 	/* Fake a memory read error with unknown channel */
 	m.status = MCI_STATUS_VAL | MCI_STATUS_EN | MCI_STATUS_ADDRV | MCI_STATUS_MISCV | 0x9f;
-	m.misc = (MCI_MISC_ADDR_PHYS << 6) | PAGE_SHIFT;
+	m.misc = (MCI_MISC_ADDR_PHYS << 6) | lsb;
 
 	if (severity >= GHES_SEV_RECOVERABLE)
 		m.status |= MCI_STATUS_UC;
diff --git a/drivers/ras/cec.c b/drivers/ras/cec.c
index 42f2fc0bc8a9..321af498ee11 100644
--- a/drivers/ras/cec.c
+++ b/drivers/ras/cec.c
@@ -556,6 +556,14 @@ static int __init cec_init(void)
 	if (ce_arr.disabled)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
+	/*
+	 * Intel systems may avoid uncorrectable errors
+	 * if pages with corrected errors are aggressively
+	 * taken offline.
+	 */
+	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor == X86_VENDOR_INTEL)
+		action_threshold = 2;
+
 	ce_arr.array = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ce_arr.array) {
 		pr_err("Error allocating CE array page!\n");