linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/20] signal/powerpc: On swapcontext failure force SIGSEGV

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Date:   Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:09:42 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/20] signal/powerpc: On swapcontext failure force
 SIGSEGV

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:43:53PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> If the register state may be partial and corrupted instead of calling
> do_exit, call force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV).  Which properly kills the
> process with SIGSEGV and does not let any more userspace code execute,
> instead of just killing one thread of the process and potentially
> confusing everything.
> 
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
> History-tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
> Fixes: 756f1ae8a44e ("PPC32: Rework signal code and add a swapcontext system call.")
> Fixes: 04879b04bf50 ("[PATCH] ppc64: VMX (Altivec) support & signal32 rework, from Ben Herrenschmidt")
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

This looks right to me.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook