From 6c4841c2b6c32a134f9f36e5e08857138cc12b10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:41:00 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Never panic when taking altivec exceptions from userspace At the moment we rely on a cpu feature bit or a firmware property to detect altivec. If we dont have either of these and the cpu does in fact support altivec we can cause a panic from userspace. It seems safer to always send a signal if we manage to get an 0xf20 exception from userspace. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c index d9f10f2f..5ed4c2c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c @@ -900,14 +900,13 @@ void kernel_fp_unavailable_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) void altivec_unavailable_exception(struct pt_regs *regs) { -#if !defined(CONFIG_ALTIVEC) if (user_mode(regs)) { /* A user program has executed an altivec instruction, but this kernel doesn't support altivec. */ _exception(SIGILL, regs, ILL_ILLOPC, regs->nip); return; } -#endif + printk(KERN_EMERG "Unrecoverable VMX/Altivec Unavailable Exception " "%lx at %lx\n", regs->trap, regs->nip); die("Unrecoverable VMX/Altivec Unavailable Exception", regs, SIGABRT); -- 2.7.4