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SubjectRe: [PATCH 11/20] signal/s390: Use force_sigsegv in default_trap_handler
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:43:57PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Reading the history it is unclear why default_trap_handler calls
> do_exit. It is not even menthioned in the commit where the change
> happened. My best guess is that because it is unknown why the
> exception happened it was desired to guarantee the process never
> returned to userspace.
>
> Using do_exit(SIGSEGV) has the problem that it will only terminate one
> thread of a process, leaving the process in an undefined state.
>
> Use force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) instead which effectively has the same
> behavior except that is uses the ordinary signal mechanism and
> terminates all threads of a process and is generally well defined.
>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: ca2ab03237ec ("[PATCH] s390: core changes")
> History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook

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