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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2023-01-31 05:34:16 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2023-03-02 18:32:15 +0100
commitdce45493aff3fdd57fed2a0da264e585dba88433 (patch)
treed1e462232cfc4a0a3b655d1c1cba4206d03a4db4 /arch/alpha
parentparisc: fix livelock in uaccess (diff)
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alpha: fix livelock in uaccess
alpha equivalent of 26178ec11ef3 "x86: mm: consolidate VM_FAULT_RETRY handling" If e.g. get_user() triggers a page fault and a fatal signal is caught, we might end up with handle_mm_fault() returning VM_FAULT_RETRY and not doing anything to page tables. In such case we must *not* return to the faulting insn - that would repeat the entire thing without making any progress; what we need instead is to treat that as failed (user) memory access. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/alpha')
-rw-r--r--arch/alpha/mm/fault.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c b/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c
index ef427a6bdd1a..7b01ae4f3bc6 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c
@@ -152,8 +152,11 @@ retry:
the fault. */
fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags, regs);
- if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs))
+ if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs)) {
+ if (!user_mode(regs))
+ goto no_context;
return;
+ }
/* The fault is fully completed (including releasing mmap lock) */
if (fault & VM_FAULT_COMPLETED)