From: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
This patch adds the return value check for the exception notifiers at
do_general_protection as pointed out by Chuck Ebbert.
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---
25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c~x86_64-do_general_protection-retval-check arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c
--- 25/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c~x86_64-do_general_protection-retval-check 2004-11-30 01:22:56.798253848 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c 2004-11-30 01:22:56.801253392 -0800
@@ -556,8 +556,9 @@ asmlinkage void do_general_protection(st
regs->rip = fixup->fixup;
return;
}
- notify_die(DIE_GPF, "general protection fault", regs, error_code,
- 13, SIGSEGV);
+ if (notify_die(DIE_GPF, "general protection fault", regs,
+ error_code, 13, SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
+ return;
die("general protection fault", regs, error_code);
}
}
_