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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-13 09:49:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-13 09:49:20 -0700
commit96054569190bdec375fe824e48ca1f4e3b53dd36 (patch)
tree13e249da75a0667e2c9d195e9c125fb14d721e71 /arch/x86/include/asm/page.h
parent5528f9132cf65d4d892bcbc5684c61e7822b21e9 (diff)
x86: don't send SIGBUS for kernel page faults
It's wrong for several reasons, but the most direct one is that the fault may be for the stack accesses to set up a previous SIGBUS. When we have a kernel exception, the kernel exception handler does all the fixups, not some user-level signal handler. Even apart from the nested SIGBUS issue, it's also wrong to give out kernel fault addresses in the signal handler info block, or to send a SIGBUS when a system call already returns EFAULT. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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