arm64: don't kill the kernel on a bad esr from el0
authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tue, 28 May 2013 14:54:15 +0000 (15:54 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fri, 31 May 2013 15:04:51 +0000 (16:04 +0100)
Rather than completely killing the kernel if we receive an esr value we
can't deal with in the el0 handlers, send the process a SIGILL and log
the esr value in the hope that we can debug it. If we receive a bad esr
from el1, we'll die() as before.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c

index f1ff9bad00f79a2531d7663f378f52a2c1686f6f..f30852d28590358c6780a22c14049f92a124bdb8 100644 (file)
@@ -311,14 +311,20 @@ asmlinkage long do_ni_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs)
  */
 asmlinkage void bad_mode(struct pt_regs *regs, int reason, unsigned int esr)
 {
+       siginfo_t info;
+       void __user *pc = (void __user *)instruction_pointer(regs);
        console_verbose();
 
        pr_crit("Bad mode in %s handler detected, code 0x%08x\n",
                handler[reason], esr);
+       __show_regs(regs);
+
+       info.si_signo = SIGILL;
+       info.si_errno = 0;
+       info.si_code  = ILL_ILLOPC;
+       info.si_addr  = pc;
 
-       die("Oops - bad mode", regs, 0);
-       local_irq_disable();
-       panic("bad mode");
+       arm64_notify_die("Oops - bad mode", regs, &info, 0);
 }
 
 void __pte_error(const char *file, int line, unsigned long val)