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x86/mpx: Correctly report do_mpx_bt_fault() failures to user-space

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commit 5ed386ec09 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: fe3d197f84 ('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>
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Joerg Roedel 2017-04-06 16:19:22 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 7cd8c49031
commit 6fb3b32230
1 changed files with 1 additions and 9 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
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@ -525,15 +525,7 @@ int mpx_handle_bd_fault(void)
if (!kernel_managing_mpx_tables(current->mm))
return -EINVAL;
if (do_mpx_bt_fault()) {
force_sig(SIGSEGV, current);
/*
* The force_sig() is essentially "handling" this
* exception, so we do not pass up the error
* from do_mpx_bt_fault().
*/
}
return 0;
return do_mpx_bt_fault();
}
/*