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| author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2005-09-10 21:13:11 +1000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-09-10 10:15:11 -0700 |
| commit | bb0bb3b6596cdb08adb0b72453cc67d48e139c2c (patch) | |
| tree | f9116ed650d499d405a3fe021c473f9558897d96 /arch/ppc/mm | |
| parent | 1e63bc7342c40f0f1dd83d80d368665bd06f4963 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bb0bb3b6596cdb08adb0b72453cc67d48e139c2c.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] ppc32: Kill init on unhandled synchronous signals
This is a patch that I have had in my tree for ages. If init causes
an exception that raises a signal, such as a SIGSEGV, SIGILL or
SIGFPE, and it hasn't registered a handler for it, we don't deliver
the signal, since init doesn't get any signals that it doesn't have a
handler for. But that means that we just return to userland and
generate the same exception again immediately. With this patch we
print a message and kill init in this situation.
This is very useful when you have a bug in the kernel that means that
init doesn't get as far as executing its first instruction. :)
Without this patch the system hangs when it gets to starting the
userland init; with it you at least get a message giving you a clue
about what has gone wrong.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ppc/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/ppc/mm/fault.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ppc/mm/fault.c b/arch/ppc/mm/fault.c index 57d9930843ac..ee5e9f25baf9 100644 --- a/arch/ppc/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/ppc/mm/fault.c @@ -278,11 +278,7 @@ bad_area: /* User mode accesses cause a SIGSEGV */ if (user_mode(regs)) { - info.si_signo = SIGSEGV; - info.si_errno = 0; - info.si_code = code; - info.si_addr = (void __user *) address; - force_sig_info(SIGSEGV, &info, current); + _exception(SIGSEGV, regs, code, address); return 0; } |