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From: tip-bot for Joerg Roedel <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jpoimboe@redhat.com, dvlasenk@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	jroedel@suse.de, tglx@linutronix.de, brgerst@gmail.com,
	dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	hpa@zytor.com, luto@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	bp@alien8.de, mingo@kernel.org
Subject: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mpx: Correctly report do_mpx_bt_fault() failures to user-space
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 00:30:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-5ed386ec09a5d75bcf073967e55e895c2607a5c3@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1491488362-27198-1-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org>

Commit-ID:  5ed386ec09a5d75bcf073967e55e895c2607a5c3
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/5ed386ec09a5d75bcf073967e55e895c2607a5c3
Author:     Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
AuthorDate: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 16:19:22 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 08:40:58 +0200

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>
---
 arch/x86/mm/mpx.c | 10 +---------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
index cd44ae7..1c34b76 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();
 }
 
 /*

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-12  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-06 14:19 [PATCH] x86/mpx: Correctly report do_mpx_bt_fault() failures to user-space Joerg Roedel
2017-04-12  7:30 ` tip-bot for Joerg Roedel [this message]
2017-04-17 15:38 ` Dave Hansen
2017-04-20 12:08   ` Joerg Roedel
2017-04-20 15:45     ` Dave Hansen
2017-04-21 12:19       ` Joerg Roedel
2017-04-21 14:30         ` Dave Hansen

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