linux/arch/sparc
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
..
boot sparc: Add "install" target 2014-08-04 20:45:59 -07:00
configs sparc: Set CONFIG_NET=y in defconfigs 2014-09-24 13:38:30 -04:00
crypto crypto: sparc - replace memset by memzero_explicit 2014-12-02 22:55:48 +08:00
include Driver core patches for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-14 16:10:09 -08:00
kernel sparc/PCI: Clip bridge windows to fit in upstream windows 2015-01-16 10:04:43 -06:00
lib sparc32: Implement xchg and atomic_xchg using ATOMIC_HASH locks 2014-11-07 12:51:44 -08:00
math-emu arch/sparc/math-emu/math_32.c: drop stray break operator 2014-08-04 20:29:06 -07:00
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
power Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2014-10-11 20:36:34 -04:00
prom sparc64: Fix register corruption in top-most kernel stack frame during boot. 2014-10-24 09:52:49 -07:00
Kbuild sparc64: Add SHA1 driver making use of the 'sha1' instruction. 2012-08-20 15:08:49 -07:00
Kconfig sparc64: sparse irq 2014-10-05 16:53:40 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile sparc: Add "install" target 2014-08-04 20:45:59 -07:00