From 85be9ae7b63092895b6e7ac87a3ef383c679866c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 14:59:48 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] exit/xtensa: In arch/xtensa/entry.S:Linvalid_mask call make_task_dead There have historically been two big uses of do_exit. The first is it's design use to be the guts of the exit(2) system call. The second use is to terminate a task after something catastrophic has happened like a NULL pointer in kernel code. The function make_task_dead has been added to accomidate the second use. The call to do_exit in Linvalidmask is clearly not a normal userspace exit. As failure handling there are two possible ways to go. If userspace can trigger the issue force_exit_sig should be called. Otherwise make_task_dead probably from the implementation of die is appropriate. Replace the call of do_exit in Linvalidmask with make_task_dead as I don't know xtensa and especially xtensa assembly language well enough to do anything else. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YdUmN7n4W5YETUhW@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk Suggested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S b/arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S index 99ab3c1a3387..a1029a5b6a1d 100644 --- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S +++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/entry.S @@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ ENTRY(fast_syscall_spill_registers) rsync movi abi_arg0, SIGSEGV - abi_call do_exit + abi_call make_task_dead /* shouldn't return, so panic */ -- 2.25.1