Commit 3076a492 authored Mar 25, 2006 by Andi Kleen Committed by Linus Torvalds Mar 25, 2006

[PATCH] x86_64: Report SIGSEGV for IRET faults



tcsh is not happy with the -9999 error code.

Suggested by Ernie Petrides

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent ad90573f

arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S

+1 −1

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		@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ iret_label:
		/* force a signal here? this matches i386 behaviour */
		/* running with kernel gs */
		bad_iret:
		movq $-9999,%rdi /* better code? */
		movq $11,%rdi /* SIGSEGV */
		sti
		jmp do_exit
		.previous