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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2018-07-19 20:48:30 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2018-09-11 21:18:53 +0200
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signal: Properly deliver SIGSEGV from x86 uprobes
For userspace to tell the difference between an random signal and an exception, the exception must include siginfo information. Using SEND_SIG_FORCED for SIGSEGV is thus wrong, and it will result in userspace seeing si_code == SI_USER (like a random signal) instead of si_code == SI_KERNEL or a more specific si_code as all exceptions deliver. Therefore replace force_sig_info(SIGSEGV, SEND_SIG_FORCE, current) with force_sig(SIG_SEGV, current) which gets this right and is shorter and easier to type. Fixes: 791eca10107f ("uretprobes/x86: Hijack return address") Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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