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ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block
authorVladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:39:04 +0000 (11:39 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Sat, 6 Dec 2014 14:18:20 +0000 (15:18 +0100)
commit932307a475b5c56786987a98472c8e6c5bb5cd78
treefe1eeb4b810419903d2440783e9ee00a1c490539
parent72741f17d30ed08eb9eb64711bfd6c7e11ab7841
ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block

commit 3f4aa45ceea5789a4aade536acc27f2e0d3da5e1 upstream.

We cannot restart cacheflush safely if a process provides user-defined
signal handler and signal is pending. In this case -EINTR is returned
and it is expected that process re-invokes syscall. However, there are
a few problems with that:
 * looks like nobody bothers checking return value from cacheflush
 * but if it did, we don't provide the restart address for that, so the
   process has to use the same range again
 * ...and again, what might lead to looping forever

So, remove cacheflush restarting code and terminate cache flushing
as early as fatal signal is pending.

Reported-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c