linux-stable.git/arch/um/kernel/trap.c, branch linux-3.4.y

vm: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV handling support

2015-04-14T09:33:57+00:00

commit 33692f27597fcab536d7cbbcc8f52905133e4aa7 upstream.

The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.

That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works.  However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.

In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV.  And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.

However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space.  And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.

To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it.  They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.

This is the mindless minimal patch to do this.  A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.

Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.

Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai 
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt 
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens  # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Adjust filenames, context
 - Drop arc, metag, nios2 and lustre changes
 - For sh, patch both 32-bit and 64-bit implementations to use goto bad_area
 - For s390, pass int_code and trans_exc_code as arguments to do_no_context()
   and do_sigsegv()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
[lizf: Backported to 3.4:
 - adjust context in arch/power/mm/fault.c
 - apply the original change in upstream commit for s390]
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li

um: distribute exports to where exported stuff is defined

2011-11-02T13:15:36+00:00

ksyms.c is down to the stuff defined in various USER_OBJS

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

um: kill includes of sysdep/sigcontext.h from stuff built with kernel headers

2011-11-02T13:14:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

um: print info about fatal segfaults

2011-05-25T15:39:41+00:00

Print a short info about fatal segfaults like other archs do.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Move FAULT_FLAG_xyz into handle_mm_fault() callers

2009-06-21T20:08:22+00:00

This allows the callers to now pass down the full set of FAULT_FLAG_xyz
flags to handle_mm_fault().  All callers have been (mechanically)
converted to the new calling convention, there's almost certainly room
for architectures to clean up their code and then add FAULT_FLAG_RETRY
when that support is added.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: invoke oom-killer from page fault

2009-01-06T23:58:58+00:00

Rather than have the pagefault handler kill a process directly if it gets
a VM_FAULT_OOM, have it call into the OOM killer.

With increasingly sophisticated oom behaviour (cpusets, memory cgroups,
oom killing throttling, oom priority adjustment or selective disabling,
panic on oom, etc), it's silly to unconditionally kill the faulting
process at page fault time.  Create a hook for pagefault oom path to call
into instead.

Only converted x86 and uml so far.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __out_of_memory() static]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: kill processes instead of panicing kernel

2008-02-05T17:44:28+00:00

UML was panicing in the case of failures of libc calls which shouldn't happen.
 This is an overreaction since a failure from libc doesn't normally mean that
kernel data structures are in an unknown state.  Instead, the current process
should just be killed if there is no way to recover.

The case that prompted this was a failure of PTRACE_SETREGS restoring the same
state that was read by PTRACE_GETREGS.  It appears that when a process tries
to load a bogus value into a segment register, it segfaults (as expected) and
the value is actually loaded and is seen by PTRACE_GETREGS (not expected).

This case is fixed by forcing a fatal SIGSEGV on the process so that it
immediately dies.  fatal_sigsegv was added for this purpose.  It was declared
as noreturn, so in order to pursuade gcc that it actually does not return, I
added a call to os_dump_core (and declared it noreturn) so that I get a core
file if somehow the process survives.

All other calls in arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c got the same treatment,
with failures causing the process to die instead of a kernel panic, with some
exceptions.

userspace_tramp exits with status 1 if anything goes wrong there.  That will
cause start_userspace to return an error.  copy_context_skas0 and
map_stub_pages also now return errors instead of panicing.  Callers of thes
functions were changed to check for errors and do something appropriate.
Usually that's to return an error to their callers.
check_skas3_ptrace_faultinfo just exits since that's too early to do anything
else.

save_registers, restore_registers, and init_registers now return status
instead of panicing on failure, with their callers doing something
appropriate.

There were also duplicate declarations of save_registers and restore_registers
in os.h - these are gone.

I noticed and fixed up some whitespace damage.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: tidy pgtable.h

2008-02-05T17:44:26+00:00

Large pieces of include/asm/pgtable.h were unused cruft.

This uncovered arch/um/kernel/trap.c needing skas.h in order to get
ptrace_faultinfo.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: tidy kern_util.h

2008-02-05T17:44:26+00:00

Tidy kern_util.h.  It turns out that most of the function declarations
aren't used, so they can go away.  os.h no longer includes
kern_util.h, so files which got it through os.h now need to include it
directly.  A number of other files never needed it, so these includes
are deleted.

The structure which was used to pass signal handlers from the kernel
side to the userspace side is gone.  Instead, the handlers are
declared here, and used directly from libc code.  This allows
arch/um/os-Linux/trap.c to be deleted, with its remnants being moved
to arch/um/os-Linux/skas/trap.c.

arch/um/os-Linux/tty.c had its inclusions changed, and it needed some
style attention, so it got tidied.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uml: further bugs.c tidying

2008-02-05T17:44:25+00:00

bugs.c, for both i386 and x86_64, can undergo further cleaning -
	The i386 arch_check_bugs only does one thing, so we might as
well inline the cmov checking.
	The i386 includes can be trimmed down a bit.
	arch_init_thread wasn't used, so it is deleted.
	The panics in arch_handle_signal are turned into printks
because the process is about to get segfaulted anyway, so something is
dying no matter what happens here.  Also, the return value was always
the same, so it contained no information, so it can be void instead.
The name is changed to arch_examine_signal because it doesn't handle
anything.
	The caller of arch_handle_signal, relay_signal, does things in
a different order.  The kernel-mode signal check is now first, which
puts everything else together, making things a bit clearer conceptually.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds