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authorAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>2009-02-12 15:39:33 +0300
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2009-02-18 02:24:31 +0300
commit380851bc6b1b4107c61dfa2997f9095dcf779336 (patch)
tree1b80fb980d33323421d8d3e76965d3f798756520 /arch/x86
parent6ec68bff3c81e776a455f6aca95c8c5f1d630198 (diff)
downloadlinux-380851bc6b1b4107c61dfa2997f9095dcf779336.tar.xz
x86, mce: use force_sig_info to kill process in machine check
Impact: bug fix (with tolerant == 3) do_exit cannot be called directly from the exception handler because it can sleep and the exception handler runs on the exception stack. Use force_sig() instead. Based on a earlier patch by Ying Huang who debugged the problem. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
index 1f184efb6bc2..25cf624eccb7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
@@ -295,11 +295,11 @@ void do_machine_check(struct pt_regs * regs, long error_code)
* If we know that the error was in user space, send a
* SIGBUS. Otherwise, panic if tolerance is low.
*
- * do_exit() takes an awful lot of locks and has a slight
+ * force_sig() takes an awful lot of locks and has a slight
* risk of deadlocking.
*/
if (user_space) {
- do_exit(SIGBUS);
+ force_sig(SIGBUS, current);
} else if (panic_on_oops || tolerant < 2) {
mce_panic("Uncorrected machine check",
&panicm, mcestart);