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author | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2023-01-30 23:55:52 -0500 |
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committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2023-03-02 12:30:15 -0500 |
commit | d835eb3a57de50d16dd4a6b53f95dbc2bfa8ef48 (patch) | |
tree | d027d106b51591b8d2b6eedc82b19368fc27ef93 /arch/alpha | |
parent | bd75497a77ccae9a5e1b0f1a3fa8283d67b21f4c (diff) | |
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riscv: fix livelock in uaccess
riscv 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.
Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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