From bb0bb3b6596cdb08adb0b72453cc67d48e139c2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 21:13:11 +1000 Subject: [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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/ppc/mm/fault.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/ppc/mm') diff --git a/arch/ppc/mm/fault.c b/arch/ppc/mm/fault.c index 57d9930843a..ee5e9f25baf 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; } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2