We are not in a critical failure path. The invalid register type is caused when trying to decode invalid instruction bytes from a user-space program. Thus, simply print an error message. To prevent this warning from being abused from user space programs, use the rate-limited variant of printk.
Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbin...@gmail.com> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoa...@gmail.com> Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei....@intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgar...@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyu...@google.com> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shan...@intel.com> Cc: x...@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calde...@linux.intel.com> --- arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c b/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c index e746a6f..182e2ae 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ */ #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/string.h> +#include <linux/ratelimit.h> #include <asm/inat.h> #include <asm/insn.h> #include <asm/insn-eval.h> @@ -85,9 +86,8 @@ static int get_reg_offset(struct insn *insn, struct pt_regs *regs, break; default: - pr_err("invalid register type"); - BUG(); - break; + printk_ratelimited(KERN_ERR "insn-eval: x86: invalid register type"); + return -EINVAL; } if (regno >= nr_registers) { -- 2.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html