use force_sig when handling address errors
authorFlorian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Wed, 6 May 2009 21:27:28 +0000 (21:27 +0000)
committerFlorian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Wed, 6 May 2009 21:27:28 +0000 (21:27 +0000)
SVN-Revision: 15642

target/linux/generic-2.6/patches-2.6.29/022-mips_force_sig_address_errors.patch [new file with mode: 0644]

diff --git a/target/linux/generic-2.6/patches-2.6.29/022-mips_force_sig_address_errors.patch b/target/linux/generic-2.6/patches-2.6.29/022-mips_force_sig_address_errors.patch
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..87e7159
--- /dev/null
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+When init is started it is SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE.  If it were to get an
+address error, we would try to send it SIGBUS, but it would be ignored
+and the faulting instruction restarted.  This results in an endless
+loop.
+
+We need to use force_sig() instead so it will actually die and give us
+some useful information.
+
+Reported-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
+
+Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
+---
+ arch/mips/kernel/unaligned.c |    6 +++---
+ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/unaligned.c b/arch/mips/kernel/unaligned.c
+index bf4c4a9..67bd626 100644
+--- a/arch/mips/kernel/unaligned.c
++++ b/arch/mips/kernel/unaligned.c
+@@ -482,19 +482,19 @@ fault:
+               return;
+       die_if_kernel("Unhandled kernel unaligned access", regs);
+-      send_sig(SIGSEGV, current, 1);
++      force_sig(SIGSEGV, current);
+       return;
+ sigbus:
+       die_if_kernel("Unhandled kernel unaligned access", regs);
+-      send_sig(SIGBUS, current, 1);
++      force_sig(SIGBUS, current);
+       return;
+ sigill:
+       die_if_kernel("Unhandled kernel unaligned access or invalid instruction", regs);
+-      send_sig(SIGILL, current, 1);
++      force_sig(SIGILL, current);
+ }
+ asmlinkage void do_ade(struct pt_regs *regs)
+-- 
+1.6.0.6
+