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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:32:44 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [git pull] x86 fixes
Linus,
Please pull the latest x86-fixes-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-fixes-for-linus
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------>
Ingo Molnar (1):
x86/mm: unify init task OOM handling
Linus Torvalds (1):
x86/mm: do not trigger a kernel warning if user-space disables interrupts and generates a page fault
Suresh Siddha (1):
x86: fix compat-vdso
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++----------------------------
include/asm-x86/pgtable.h | 7 ++++++-
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index a742d75..8bc5956 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -645,24 +645,23 @@ void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
- /* It's safe to allow irq's after cr2 has been saved and the vmalloc
- fault has been handled. */
- if (regs->flags & (X86_EFLAGS_IF | X86_VM_MASK))
- local_irq_enable();
-
/*
- * If we're in an interrupt, have no user context or are running in an
- * atomic region then we must not take the fault.
+ * It's safe to allow irq's after cr2 has been saved and the
+ * vmalloc fault has been handled.
+ *
+ * User-mode registers count as a user access even for any
+ * potential system fault or CPU buglet.
*/
- if (in_atomic() || !mm)
- goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
-#else /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
- if (likely(regs->flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF))
+ if (user_mode_vm(regs)) {
+ local_irq_enable();
+ error_code |= PF_USER;
+ } else if (regs->flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF)
local_irq_enable();
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
if (unlikely(error_code & PF_RSVD))
pgtable_bad(address, regs, error_code);
+#endif
/*
* If we're in an interrupt, have no user context or are running in an
@@ -671,15 +670,9 @@ void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
if (unlikely(in_atomic() || !mm))
goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
- /*
- * User-mode registers count as a user access even for any
- * potential system fault or CPU buglet.
- */
- if (user_mode_vm(regs))
- error_code |= PF_USER;
again:
-#endif
- /* When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to
+ /*
+ * When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to
* addresses in user space. All other faults represent errors in the
* kernel and should generate an OOPS. Unfortunately, in the case of an
* erroneous fault occurring in a code path which already holds mmap_sem
@@ -742,9 +735,6 @@ good_area:
goto bad_area;
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-survive:
-#endif
/*
* If for any reason at all we couldn't handle the fault,
* make sure we exit gracefully rather than endlessly redo
@@ -879,12 +869,11 @@ out_of_memory:
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
if (is_global_init(tsk)) {
yield();
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- goto survive;
-#else
+ /*
+ * Re-lookup the vma - in theory the vma tree might
+ * have changed:
+ */
goto again;
-#endif
}
printk("VM: killing process %s\n", tsk->comm);
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h b/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
index ed93245..e9f10af 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
@@ -138,8 +138,13 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_IDENT_LARGE_EXEC __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC
#else
+/*
+ * For PDE_IDENT_ATTR include USER bit. As the PDE and PTE protection
+ * bits are combined, this will alow user to access the high address mapped
+ * VDSO in the presence of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO
+ */
#define PTE_IDENT_ATTR 0x003 /* PRESENT+RW */
-#define PDE_IDENT_ATTR 0x063 /* PRESENT+RW+DIRTY+ACCESSED */
+#define PDE_IDENT_ATTR 0x067 /* PRESENT+RW+USER+DIRTY+ACCESSED */
#define PGD_IDENT_ATTR 0x001 /* PRESENT (no other attributes) */
#endif
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