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x86/mpx: Correctly report do_mpx_bt_fault() failures to user-space
authorJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Thu, 6 Apr 2017 14:19:22 +0000 (16:19 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:41:41 +0000 (14:41 +0200)
commited815afd32cdd6f549036f50ae3a67c92e80c47a
tree566bd9fdb6820fd8f489aa7295c490a3aa0ffc3c
parent92ff9b6ce863575a4684c54b4897707d45933c5b
x86/mpx: Correctly report do_mpx_bt_fault() failures to user-space

commit 5ed386ec09a5d75bcf073967e55e895c2607a5c3 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/mm/mpx.c