Re: [PATCH] signal/x86: Don't send SIGSEGV twice on SEGV_PKUERR

[Eric W. Biederman]

Jiashuo Liang <liangjs@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Before this patch, the __bad_area_nosemaphore function calls both
> force_sig_pkuerr and force_sig_fault when handling SEGV_PKUERR. This does
> not cause problems because the second signal is filtered by the
> legacy_queue check in __send_signal. But it causes the kernel to do
> unnecessary work.
>
> This patch should fix it.

Have you been able to test this patch?

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Does one of the x86 maintainers want to pick up this trivial fix or
should I pick it up?

Eric


> Fixes: 9db812dbb29d ("signal/x86: Call force_sig_pkuerr from __bad_area_nosemaphore")
> Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jiashuo Liang <liangjs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index 1c548ad00752..6bda7f67d737 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -836,8 +836,8 @@ __bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>  
>  	if (si_code == SEGV_PKUERR)
>  		force_sig_pkuerr((void __user *)address, pkey);
> -
> -	force_sig_fault(SIGSEGV, si_code, (void __user *)address);
> +	else
> +		force_sig_fault(SIGSEGV, si_code, (void __user *)address);
>  
>  	local_irq_disable();
>  }