signal/s390: Use force_sigsegv in default_trap_handler
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:43:57 +0000 (12:43 -0500)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 19:31:05 +0000 (14:31 -0500)
Reading the history it is unclear why default_trap_handler calls
do_exit.  It is not even menthioned in the commit where the change
happened.  My best guess is that because it is unknown why the
exception happened it was desired to guarantee the process never
returned to userspace.

Using do_exit(SIGSEGV) has the problem that it will only terminate one
thread of a process, leaving the process in an undefined state.

Use force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) instead which effectively has the same
behavior except that is uses the ordinary signal mechanism and
terminates all threads of a process and is generally well defined.

Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ca2ab03237ec ("[PATCH] s390: core changes")
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211020174406.17889-11-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
arch/s390/kernel/traps.c

index bcefc21..51729ea 100644 (file)
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static void default_trap_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
        if (user_mode(regs)) {
                report_user_fault(regs, SIGSEGV, 0);
-               do_exit(SIGSEGV);
+               force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV);
        } else
                die(regs, "Unknown program exception");
 }