linux-kernel - [PATCH -fixes 1/2] riscv: Handle VM_FAULT_[HWPOISON|HWPOISON

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Date:   Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:18:45 +0200
From:   Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
To:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Andrew Jones <ajones@...tanamicro.com>,
        Qinglin Pan <panqinglin2020@...as.ac.cn>,
        Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
Subject: [PATCH -fixes 1/2] riscv: Handle VM_FAULT_[HWPOISON|HWPOISON_LARGE] faults instead of panicking

We used to panic when such faults were encountered but we should handle
those faults gracefully for userspace by sending a SIGBUS to the process,
like most architectures do.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@...osinc.com>
---
 arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
index 6115d7514972..90d4ba36d1d0 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static inline void mm_fault_error(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr, vm_f
 		}
 		pagefault_out_of_memory();
 		return;
-	} else if (fault & VM_FAULT_SIGBUS) {
+	} else if (fault & (VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE)) {
 		/* Kernel mode? Handle exceptions or die */
 		if (!user_mode(regs)) {
 			no_context(regs, addr);
-- 
2.39.2