From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 11/20] signal/s390: Use force_sigsegv in default_trap_handler
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 12:43:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211020174406.17889-11-ebiederm@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y26nmwkb.fsf@disp2133>
Reading the history it is unclear why default_trap_handler calls
do_exit. It is not even menthioned in the commit where the change
happened. My best guess is that because it is unknown why the
exception happened it was desired to guarantee the process never
returned to userspace.
Using do_exit(SIGSEGV) has the problem that it will only terminate one
thread of a process, leaving the process in an undefined state.
Use force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) instead which effectively has the same
behavior except that is uses the ordinary signal mechanism and
terminates all threads of a process and is generally well defined.
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ca2ab03237ec ("[PATCH] s390: core changes")
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
arch/s390/kernel/traps.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c b/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
index bcefc2173de4..51729ea2cf8e 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static void default_trap_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
if (user_mode(regs)) {
report_user_fault(regs, SIGSEGV, 0);
- do_exit(SIGSEGV);
+ force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV);
} else
die(regs, "Unknown program exception");
}
--
2.20.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-20 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-20 17:32 [PATCH 00/20] exit cleanups Eric W. Biederman
2021-10-20 17:43 ` [PATCH 02/20] exit: Remove calls of do_exit after noreturn versions of die Eric W. Biederman
2021-10-21 16:02 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-21 16:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-10-20 17:43 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2021-10-21 16:17 ` [PATCH 11/20] signal/s390: Use force_sigsegv in default_trap_handler Kees Cook
2021-10-26 9:38 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-10-28 15:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-10-29 19:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-10-20 21:51 ` [PATCH 21/20] signal: Replace force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) with force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV) Eric W. Biederman
2021-10-21 8:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-10-21 13:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-10-21 8:32 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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