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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/fault.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 57b074b02ebb..7a627ac3a0d2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -840,6 +840,15 @@ show_signal_msg(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
show_opcodes(regs, loglvl);
}
+/*
+ * The (legacy) vsyscall page is the long page in the kernel portion
+ * of the address space that has user-accessible permissions.
+ */
+static bool is_vsyscall_vaddr(unsigned long vaddr)
+{
+ return (vaddr & PAGE_MASK) == VSYSCALL_ADDR;
+}
+
static void
__bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
unsigned long address, u32 *pkey, int si_code)
@@ -869,7 +878,7 @@ __bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
* emulation.
*/
if (unlikely((error_code & X86_PF_INSTR) &&
- ((address & ~0xfff) == VSYSCALL_ADDR))) {
+ is_vsyscall_vaddr(address))) {
if (emulate_vsyscall(regs, address))
return;
}