[PATCH] powerpc/mm: make NULL pointer deferences explicit on bad page faults.

[Christophe Leroy]

As several other arches including x86, this patch makes it explicit
that a bad page fault is a NULL pointer dereference when the fault
address is lower than PAGE_SIZE

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index d51cf5f4e45e..501a1eadb3e9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -631,13 +631,16 @@ void bad_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long 
address, int sig)
        switch (TRAP(regs)) {
        case 0x300:
        case 0x380:
-               printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request for "
-                       "data at address 0x%08lx\n", regs->dar);
+               pr_alert("Unable to handle kernel %s for data at address 
0x%08lx\n",
+                        regs->dar < PAGE_SIZE ? "NULL pointer dereference" :
+                                                "paging request",
+                        regs->dar);
                break;
        case 0x400:
        case 0x480:
-               printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request for "
-                       "instruction fetch\n");
+               pr_alert("Unable to handle kernel %s for instruction fetch\n",
+                        regs->nip < PAGE_SIZE ? "NULL pointer dereference" :
+                                                "paging request");
                break;
        case 0x600:
                printk(KERN_ALERT "Unable to handle kernel paging request for "
-- 
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