Re: [PATCH v3.10.y] arm64: avoid returning from bad_mode

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 06:28:50PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> commit 7d9e8f71b989230bc613d121ca38507d34ada849 upstream.
> 
> Generally, taking an unexpected exception should be a fatal event, and
> bad_mode is intended to cater for this. However, it should be possible
> to contain unexpected synchronous exceptions from EL0 without bringing
> the kernel down, by sending a SIGILL to the task.
(...)

queued for 3.10.105, thanks Mark!

Willy
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