linux/arch/ia64
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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configs [IA64] refresh arch/ia64/configs/* using "make savedefconfig" 2014-09-23 11:09:29 -07:00
dig Disintegrate asm/system.h for IA64 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
hp ACPI / ia64 / sba_iommu: Restore the working initialization ordering 2014-06-16 22:33:20 +02:00
include [IA64] Enable execveat syscall for ia64 2015-01-05 11:25:19 -08:00
kernel Surprising number of fixes this merge window :( 2015-01-23 06:40:36 +12:00
lib Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
mm vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support 2015-01-29 10:51:32 -08:00
oprofile Disintegrate asm/system.h for IA64 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
pci ia64/PCI: Clip bridge windows to fit in upstream windows 2015-01-16 10:04:42 -06:00
scripts scripts: change scripts to use system python instead of env 2010-02-02 14:33:56 +01:00
sn PCI/MSI: Rename mask/unmask_msi_irq treewide 2014-11-23 13:01:45 +01:00
uv ia64: change to new flag variables 2011-03-17 14:02:56 +01:00
Kconfig More ACPI and power management updates for 3.19-rc1 2014-12-18 20:28:33 -08:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile KVM: ia64: remove 2014-11-20 11:08:33 +01:00
install.sh
module.lds