[REVIEW][PATCH 7/9] signal/poewrpc: Specialize _exception_pkey for handling pkey exceptions

Christophe LEROY christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Fri Sep 21 18:58:44 AEST 2018



Le 21/09/2018 à 10:54, Stephen Rothwell a écrit :
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 19:58:48 +0200 "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
>>
>> Now that _exception no longer calls _exception_pkey it is no longer
>> necessary to handle any signal with any si_code.  All pkey exceptions
>> are SIGSEGV with paired with SEGV_PKUERR.  So just handle
>> that case and remove the now unnecessary parameters from _exception_pkey.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
> 
> Looks fine to me (small query below).
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au>

In the patch title, s/poewrpc/powerpc

> 
>>   	clear_siginfo(&info);
>> -	info.si_signo = signr;
>> -	info.si_code = code;
>> +	info.si_signo = SIGSEGV;
>> +	info.si_code = SEGV_PKUERR;
>>   	info.si_addr = (void __user *) addr;
>>   	info.si_pkey = key;
>>   
>> -	force_sig_info(signr, &info, current);
>> +	force_sig_info(info.si_signo, &info, current);
>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Why not just SIGSEGV?
> 


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