Patch "MIPS: Send SIGILL for BPOSGE32 in `__compute_return_epc_for_insn'" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

MIPS: Send SIGILL for BPOSGE32 in `__compute_return_epc_for_insn'

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mips-send-sigill-for-bposge32-in-__compute_return_epc_for_insn.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:08:29 +0100
Subject: MIPS: Send SIGILL for BPOSGE32 in `__compute_return_epc_for_insn'

From: Maciej W. Rozycki <[email protected]>

commit 7b82c1058ac1f8f8b9f2b8786b1f710a57a870a8 upstream.

Fix commit e50c0a8fa60d ("Support the MIPS32 / MIPS64 DSP ASE.") and send SIGILL rather than SIGBUS whenever an unimplemented BPOSGE32 DSP ASE instruction has been encountered in `__compute_return_epc_for_insn' as our Reserved Instruction exception handler would in response to an attempt to actually execute the instruction. Sending SIGBUS only makes sense for the unaligned PC case, since moved to __compute_return_epc'. Adjust function documentation accordingly, correct formatting and use pr_info' rather than `printk' as the other exit path already does.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/16396/

---
 arch/mips/kernel/branch.c |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ int __MIPS16e_compute_return_epc(struct
  *
  * @regs:	Pointer to pt_regs
  * @insn:	branch instruction to decode
- * @returns:	-EFAULT on error and forces SIGBUS, and on success
+ * @returns:	-EFAULT on error and forces SIGILL, and on success
  *		returns 0 or BRANCH_LIKELY_TAKEN as appropriate after
  *		evaluating the branch.
  */

@@ -633,8 +633,9 @@ int __compute_return_epc_for_insn(struct
 	return ret;
 
 sigill:
-	printk("%s: DSP branch but not DSP ASE - sending SIGBUS.\n", current->comm);
-	force_sig(SIGBUS, current);
+	pr_info("%s: DSP branch but not DSP ASE - sending SIGILL.\n",
+		current->comm);
+	force_sig(SIGILL, current);
 	return -EFAULT;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__compute_return_epc_for_insn);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/mips-send-sigill-for-bposge32-in-__compute_return_epc_for_insn.patch queue-3.18/mips-actually-decode-jalx-in-__compute_return_epc_for_insn.patch queue-3.18/mips-fix-unaligned-pc-interpretation-in-compute_return_epc.patch queue-3.18/mips-math-emu-prevent-wrong-isa-mode-instruction-emulation.patch