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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)
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

index 7f86cf6252bdd9a377461f26ace57c9979b905c5..d442584fd2815e29e8209756263d3d93a1a7b5e9 100644 (file)
@@ -2645,7 +2645,7 @@ static int do_anonymous_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
        /* Check if we need to add a guard page to the stack */
        if (check_stack_guard_page(vma, address) < 0)
-               return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+               return VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV;
 
        /* Use the zero-page for reads */
        if (!(flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) {