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vm: make stack guard page errors return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV rather than SIGBUS
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:15:17 +0000 (11:15 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 6 Feb 2015 06:36:01 +0000 (22:36 -0800)
commit338dcaf53e1997a07139016eb62cd42a4dbc15e3
treede3e3a21c0e162ed8003c84373753b86a8e26c99
parent4c0720f26e8ab64144fab7b09e725b986ec540a5
vm: make stack guard page errors return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV rather than SIGBUS

commit 9c145c56d0c8a0b62e48c8d71e055ad0fb2012ba upstream.

The stack guard page error case has long incorrectly caused a SIGBUS
rather than a SIGSEGV, but nobody actually noticed until commit
fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for guard
page") because that error case was never actually triggered in any
normal situations.

Now that we actually report the error, people noticed the wrong signal
that resulted.  So far, only the test suite of libsigsegv seems to have
actually cared, but there are real applications that use libsigsegv, so
let's not wait for any of those to break.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/memory.c