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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2023-01-30 23:46:10 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2023-03-02 12:30:21 -0500
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hexagon: fix livelock in uaccess
hexagon 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. Acked-by: Brian Cain <bcain@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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