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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c index 81c77ddce2e3..c156fe0d53c3 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c @@ -439,10 +439,16 @@ static int ___do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, /* * The kernel should never take an execute fault nor should it * take a page fault to a kernel address or a page fault to a user - * address outside of dedicated places + * address outside of dedicated places. + * + * Rather than kfence directly reporting false negatives, search whether + * the NIP belongs to the fixup table for cases where fault could come + * from functions like copy_from_kernel_nofault(). */ if (unlikely(!is_user && bad_kernel_fault(regs, error_code, address, is_write))) { - if (kfence_handle_page_fault(address, is_write, regs)) + if (is_kfence_address((void *)address) && + !search_exception_tables(instruction_pointer(regs)) && + kfence_handle_page_fault(address, is_write, regs)) return 0; return SIGSEGV; |