From 1ad33f5aec20f53785dbad44c6fb3b204aefd921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:45:32 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86/fault: Don't set thread.cr2, etc before OOPSing The fault handling code sets the cr2, trap_nr, and error_code fields in thread_struct before OOPSing. No one reads those fields during an OOPS, so remove the code to set them. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Yu-cheng Yu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d418022aa0fad9cb40467aa7acaf4e95be50ee96.1542667307.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index b5ec1ca..b898a38 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -621,10 +621,6 @@ pgtable_bad(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, tsk->comm, address); dump_pagetable(address); - tsk->thread.cr2 = address; - tsk->thread.trap_nr = X86_TRAP_PF; - tsk->thread.error_code = error_code; - if (__die("Bad pagetable", regs, error_code)) sig = 0; @@ -753,10 +749,6 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, if (task_stack_end_corrupted(tsk)) printk(KERN_EMERG "Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted\n"); - tsk->thread.cr2 = address; - tsk->thread.trap_nr = X86_TRAP_PF; - tsk->thread.error_code = error_code; - sig = SIGKILL; if (__die("Oops", regs, error_code)) sig = 0; -- 2.7.4