2023-09-28 17:29:19

by Alexandre Ghiti

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Subject: [PATCH -fixes 1/2] riscv: Handle VM_FAULT_[HWPOISON|HWPOISON_LARGE] faults instead of panicking

We used to panic when such faults were encountered but we should handle
those faults gracefully for userspace by sending a SIGBUS to the process,
like most architectures do.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <[email protected]>
---
arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
index 6115d7514972..90d4ba36d1d0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static inline void mm_fault_error(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr, vm_f
}
pagefault_out_of_memory();
return;
- } else if (fault & VM_FAULT_SIGBUS) {
+ } else if (fault & (VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE)) {
/* Kernel mode? Handle exceptions or die */
if (!user_mode(regs)) {
no_context(regs, addr);
--
2.39.2