From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:31:55 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Report SIGSEGV for IRET faults
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc1~672
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3076a492a5e8dd624f237886646b35d12193502d;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[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>
---

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S
index 7c10e9009d6..8538bfea30e 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S
@@ -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