Using an si_code of 0 that aliases with SI_USER is clearly the wrong
thing todo, and causes problems in interesting ways.
For use in unknown_exception the recently defined TRAP_UNK
semantically is a perfect fit. For use in RunModeException it looks
like something more specific than TRAP_UNK could be used. No one has
bothered to find a better fit than the broken si_code of 0 in all of
these years and I don't see an obvious better fit so TRAP_UNK is
switching RunModeException to return TRAP_UNK is clearly an
improvement.
Recent history suggests no actually cares about crazy corner
cases of the kernel behavior like this so I don't expect any
regressions from changing this. However if something does
happen this change is easy to revert.
Though I wonder if SIGKILL might not be a better fit.
Cc: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <kumar.g...@freescale.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Fixes: 9bad068c24d7 ("[PATCH] ppc32: support for e500 and 85xx")
Fixes: 0ed70f6105ef ("PPC32: Provide proper siginfo information on various
exceptions.")
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h | 8 --------
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h
b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h
index 0437afc9ef3c..1d51d9b88221 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h
@@ -15,12 +15,4 @@
#include <asm-generic/siginfo.h>
-/*
- * SIGTRAP si_codes
- */
-#ifdef __KERNEL__
-#define TRAP_FIXME 0 /* Broken dup of SI_USER */
-#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
-
-
#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_SIGINFO_H */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
index fdf9400beec8..0e17dcb48720 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ void unknown_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
printk("Bad trap at PC: %lx, SR: %lx, vector=%lx\n",
regs->nip, regs->msr, regs->trap);
- _exception(SIGTRAP, regs, TRAP_FIXME, 0);
+ _exception(SIGTRAP, regs, TRAP_UNK, 0);
exception_exit(prev_state);
}
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ void instruction_breakpoint_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
void RunModeException(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
- _exception(SIGTRAP, regs, TRAP_FIXME, 0);
+ _exception(SIGTRAP, regs, TRAP_UNK, 0);
}
void single_step_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
--
2.14.1
