Instead of generating the siginfo in x86 specific code use the new helper function force_sig_bnderr to separate the concerns of collecting the information and generating a proper siginfo. Making the code easier to understand and maintain. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c index f31c0ddee278..9f7b3831fb7e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c @@ -499,8 +499,8 @@ dotraplinkage void do_bounds(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) break; /* Success, it was handled */ case 1: /* Bound violation. */ { + struct task_struct *tsk = current; struct mpx_fault_info mpx; - struct siginfo info; if (mpx_fault_info(&mpx, regs)) { /* @@ -511,19 +511,18 @@ dotraplinkage void do_bounds(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) } /* * Success, we decoded the instruction and retrieved - * an 'info' containing the address being accessed + * an 'mpx' containing the address being accessed * which caused the exception. This information * allows and application to possibly handle the * #BR exception itself. */ - clear_siginfo(&info); - info.si_signo = SIGSEGV; - info.si_errno = 0; - info.si_code = SEGV_BNDERR; - info.si_addr = mpx.addr; - info.si_lower = mpx.lower; - info.si_upper = mpx.upper; - do_trap(X86_TRAP_BR, SIGSEGV, "bounds", regs, error_code, &info); + if (!do_trap_no_signal(tsk, X86_TRAP_BR, "bounds", regs, + error_code)) + break; + + show_signal(tsk, SIGSEGV, "trap ", "bounds", regs, error_code); + + force_sig_bnderr(mpx.addr, mpx.lower, mpx.upper); break; } case 0: /* No exception caused by Intel MPX operations. */ -- 2.17.1