Commit 6c4841c2 authored by Anton Blanchard's avatar Anton Blanchard Committed by Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Never panic when taking altivec exceptions from userspace

At the moment we rely on a cpu feature bit or a firmware property to
detect altivec. If we dont have either of these and the cpu does in fact
support altivec we can cause a panic from userspace.

It seems safer to always send a signal if we manage to get an 0xf20
exception from userspace.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
parent 60b2a46c
......@@ -900,14 +900,13 @@ void kernel_fp_unavailable_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
void altivec_unavailable_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
#if !defined(CONFIG_ALTIVEC)
if (user_mode(regs)) {
/* A user program has executed an altivec instruction,
but this kernel doesn't support altivec. */
_exception(SIGILL, regs, ILL_ILLOPC, regs->nip);
return;
}
#endif
printk(KERN_EMERG "Unrecoverable VMX/Altivec Unavailable Exception "
"%lx at %lx\n", regs->trap, regs->nip);
die("Unrecoverable VMX/Altivec Unavailable Exception", regs, SIGABRT);
......
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