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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-01-29 10:51:32 -0800
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2015-02-20 00:49:40 +0000
commit219a047eb9a3cde86b5a341f9f8d4f6cf7e8cd56 (patch)
tree5817d52c8c1435d0d274b86bcfe61f82b80b93ee /mm
parent8662a896ae1ff85dca6797a0e9977a4794b67847 (diff)
vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support
commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream. The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a "you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler. That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do retries etc" - but it generally works. However, there are cases where the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV. In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a SIGSEGV. And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by that duplicated architecture fault handler. However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space. And user space really expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS. To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those duplicate architecture fault handlers about it. They all already have the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying. This is the mindless minimal patch to do this. A more extensive patch would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that cleanup. Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other "newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about them too. Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> # "s390 still compiles and boots" Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust filenames, context - Drop arc, metag, nios2 and lustre changes - For sh, patch both 32-bit and 64-bit implementations to use goto bad_area - For s390, pass int_code and trans_exc_code as arguments to do_no_context() and do_sigsegv()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/ksm.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c4
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 310544a379ae..6741c9df5c80 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ static int break_ksm(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
else
ret = VM_FAULT_WRITE;
put_page(page);
- } while (!(ret & (VM_FAULT_WRITE | VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_OOM)));
+ } while (!(ret & (VM_FAULT_WRITE | VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV | VM_FAULT_OOM)));
/*
* We must loop because handle_mm_fault() may back out if there's
* any difficulty e.g. if pte accessed bit gets updated concurrently.
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 759f915ec20b..816002cc4513 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1767,7 +1767,7 @@ int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
else
return -EFAULT;
}
- if (ret & VM_FAULT_SIGBUS)
+ if (ret & (VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV))
return i ? i : -EFAULT;
BUG();
}
@@ -1871,7 +1871,7 @@ int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
return -ENOMEM;
if (ret & (VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE))
return -EHWPOISON;
- if (ret & VM_FAULT_SIGBUS)
+ if (ret & (VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV))
return -EFAULT;
BUG();
}