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authorSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>2018-12-21 13:36:56 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-04-19 19:31:15 +0200
commitf28b11a2abd9cf5535baa03e28fc63ad0e14f52a (patch)
tree7595231afc93c344735dddd301a698f9088bf050 /arch/x86/mm/fault.c
parent89502a01979033a1c0c0c4d6d9aef07e59021005 (diff)
downloadlinux-f28b11a2abd9cf5535baa03e28fc63ad0e14f52a.tar.bz2
x86/fault: Reword initial BUG message for unhandled page faults
Reword the NULL pointer dereference case to simply state that a NULL pointer was dereferenced, i.e. drop "unable to handle" as that implies that there are instances where the kernel actual does handle NULL pointer dereferences, which is not true barring funky exception fixup. For the non-NULL case, replace "kernel paging request" with "page fault" as the kernel can technically oops on faults that originated in user code. Dropping "kernel" also allows future patches to provide detailed information on where the fault occurred, e.g. user vs. kernel, without conflicting with the initial BUG message. In both cases, replace "at address=" with wording more appropriate to the oops, as "at" may be interpreted as stating that the address is the RIP of the instruction that faulted. Last, and probably least, further qualify the NULL-pointer path by checking that the fault actually originated in kernel code. It's technically possible for userspace to map address 0, and not printing a super specific message is the least of our worries if the kernel does manage to oops on an actual NULL pointer dereference from userspace. Before: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at ffffbeef00000000 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffbeef00000000 After: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address = 0000000000000008 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address = ffffbeef00000000 Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181221213657.27628-2-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/fault.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/fault.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 667f1da36208..df2c5cdef5c4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -644,9 +644,12 @@ show_fault_oops(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long ad
from_kuid(&init_user_ns, current_uid()));
}
- pr_alert("BUG: unable to handle kernel %s at %px\n",
- address < PAGE_SIZE ? "NULL pointer dereference" : "paging request",
- (void *)address);
+ if (address < PAGE_SIZE && !user_mode(regs))
+ pr_alert("BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address = %px\n",
+ (void *)address);
+ else
+ pr_alert("BUG: unable to handle page fault for address = %px\n",
+ (void *)address);
err_txt[0] = 0;