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authorJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>2017-04-06 16:19:22 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-04-12 08:40:58 +0200
commit5ed386ec09a5d75bcf073967e55e895c2607a5c3 (patch)
tree34cd0b7760fe0a69880c4c3d29a030abbd463876 /arch/x86/mm
parente5185a76a23b2d56fb2327ad8bd58fb1bcaa52b1 (diff)
x86/mpx: Correctly report do_mpx_bt_fault() failures to user-space
When this function fails it just sends a SIGSEGV signal to user-space using force_sig(). This signal is missing essential information about the cause, e.g. the trap_nr or an error code. Fix this by propagating the error to the only caller of mpx_handle_bd_fault(), do_bounds(), which sends the correct SIGSEGV signal to the process. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: fe3d197f84319 ('x86, mpx: On-demand kernel allocation of bounds tables') Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491488362-27198-1-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/mpx.c10
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
index cd44ae727df7..1c34b767c84c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
@@ -526,15 +526,7 @@ int mpx_handle_bd_fault(void)
if (!kernel_managing_mpx_tables(current->mm))
return -EINVAL;
- if (do_mpx_bt_fault()) {
- force_sig(SIGSEGV, current);
- /*
- * The force_sig() is essentially "handling" this
- * exception, so we do not pass up the error
- * from do_mpx_bt_fault().
- */
- }
- return 0;
+ return do_mpx_bt_fault();
}
/*