[PATCH v2 1/3] MIPS: Remove noreturn attribute for die()

From: Tiezhu Yang
Date: Sun Aug 13 2023 - 23:55:09 EST


If notify_die() returns NOTIFY_STOP, honor the return value from the
handler chain invocation in die() as, through a debugger, the fault
may have been fixed. It makes sense even if ignoring the event will
make the system unstable, by allowing access through a debugger it
has been compromised already anyway. So we can remove the noreturn
attribute for die() to make our port consistent with x86, arm64,
riscv and csky.

Commit 20c0d2d44029 ("[PATCH] i386: pass proper trap numbers to die
chain handlers") may be the earliest of similar changes.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/alpine.DEB.2.21.2308132148500.8596@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/kernel/traps.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
index 246c6a6..62d6c4e 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
@@ -391,16 +391,15 @@ void show_registers(struct pt_regs *regs)

static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(die_lock);

-void __noreturn die(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs)
+void die(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
static int die_counter;
- int sig = SIGSEGV;
+ int ret;

oops_enter();

- if (notify_die(DIE_OOPS, str, regs, 0, current->thread.trap_nr,
- SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
- sig = 0;
+ ret = notify_die(DIE_OOPS, str, regs, 0,
+ current->thread.trap_nr, SIGSEGV);

console_verbose();
raw_spin_lock_irq(&die_lock);
@@ -422,7 +421,8 @@ void __noreturn die(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs)
if (regs && kexec_should_crash(current))
crash_kexec(regs);

- make_task_dead(sig);
+ if (ret != NOTIFY_STOP)
+ make_task_dead(SIGSEGV);
}

extern struct exception_table_entry __start___dbe_table[];
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