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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/fault.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index e2baeaa053a5..b0ff378650a9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 /* * Copyright (C) 1995 Linus Torvalds * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Andi Kleen, SuSE Labs. @@ -1440,7 +1441,17 @@ good_area: * make sure we exit gracefully rather than endlessly redo * the fault. Since we never set FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT, if * we get VM_FAULT_RETRY back, the mmap_sem has been unlocked. + * + * Note that handle_userfault() may also release and reacquire mmap_sem + * (and not return with VM_FAULT_RETRY), when returning to userland to + * repeat the page fault later with a VM_FAULT_NOPAGE retval + * (potentially after handling any pending signal during the return to + * userland). The return to userland is identified whenever + * FAULT_FLAG_USER|FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE are both set in flags. + * Thus we have to be careful about not touching vma after handling the + * fault, so we read the pkey beforehand. */ + pkey = vma_pkey(vma); fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags); major |= fault & VM_FAULT_MAJOR; @@ -1467,7 +1478,6 @@ good_area: return; } - pkey = vma_pkey(vma); up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); if (unlikely(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR)) { mm_fault_error(regs, error_code, address, &pkey, fault); |