[PATCH 3/5] arm64: consistently pass ESR_ELx to die()

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue Jul 12 21:27:30 PDT 2022


On 7/12/22 21:44, Mark Rutland wrote:
> Currently, but_handler() and kasan_handler() call die() with '0' as the

s/but_handler/bug_handler

> 'err' value, whereas die_kernel_fault() passes the ESR_ELx value.
> 
> For consistencty, this patch ensures we always pass the ESR_ELx value to

s/consistencty/consistency

> die(). As this is only called for exceptions taken from kernel mode,
> there should be no user-visible change as a result of this patch.

Why should not change do_undefinstr() to pass 'esr' into die() as well.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei at arm.com>
> Cc: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap at arm.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse at arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> index da8ffef6f7c5..6739ce64caf8 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c
> @@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ static int bug_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long esr)
>  {
>  	switch (report_bug(regs->pc, regs)) {
>  	case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG:
> -		die("Oops - BUG", regs, 0);
> +		die("Oops - BUG", regs, esr);
>  		break;
>  
>  	case BUG_TRAP_TYPE_WARN:
> @@ -1040,7 +1040,7 @@ static int kasan_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long esr)
>  	 * This is something that might be fixed at some point in the future.
>  	 */
>  	if (!recover)
> -		die("Oops - KASAN", regs, 0);
> +		die("Oops - KASAN", regs, esr);
>  
>  	/* If thread survives, skip over the brk instruction and continue: */
>  	arm64_skip_faulting_instruction(regs, AARCH64_INSN_SIZE);



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