linux/arch/powerpc
Linus Torvalds 33692f2759 vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support
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 fee7e49d45 ("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
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-01-29 10:51:32 -08:00
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boot Merge remote-tracking branch 'scottwood/next' into next 2014-11-18 17:00:38 +11:00
configs PM: Eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME 2014-12-19 22:55:06 +01:00
crypto crypto: add missing crypto module aliases 2015-01-13 22:29:11 +11:00
include powerpc: Work around gcc bug in current_thread_info() 2015-01-12 16:40:02 +11:00
kernel PCI updates for v3.19: 2015-01-24 10:58:47 +12:00
kvm 3.19 changes for KVM: 2014-12-18 16:05:28 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2014-12-12 10:08:06 -08:00
math-emu powerpc: Correct emulated mtfsf instruction 2014-04-07 10:33:11 +10:00
mm vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support 2015-01-29 10:51:32 -08:00
net module: remove mod arg from module_free, rename module_memfree(). 2015-01-20 11:38:33 +10:30
oprofile powerpc updates for 3.19 2014-12-11 17:48:14 -08:00
perf power/perf/hv-24x7: Use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree 2014-12-12 16:06:13 +11:00
platforms powerpc/powernv: Restore LPCR with LPCR_PECE1 cleared 2015-01-22 17:22:57 +11:00
sysdev Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
xmon powerpc/xmon: Fix another endiannes issue in RTAS call from xmon 2015-01-19 09:58:16 +11:00
Kconfig gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL from ARCH Kconfigs 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
Kconfig.debug Patch queue for ppc - 2014-08-01 2014-08-05 09:58:11 +02:00
Makefile powerpc: Add POWER8 CPU selection 2014-09-25 23:14:49 +10:00
relocs_check.pl Fix warning typo "CONFIG_RELCOATABLE" 2013-05-29 15:11:30 +02:00