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ARM: 6166/1: Proper prefetch abort handling on pre-ARMv6
authorAnfei <anfei.zhou@gmail.com>
Tue, 8 Jun 2010 14:16:49 +0000 (15:16 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:22:31 +0000 (11:22 -0700)
commit 5e27fb78df95e027723af2c90ecc9b4527ae59e9 upstream.

Instruction faults on pre-ARMv6 CPUs are interpreted as
a 'translation fault', but do_translation_fault doesn't
handle well if user mode trying to run instruction above
TASK_SIZE, and result in the infinite retry of that
instruction.

Signed-off-by: Anfei Zhou <anfei.zhou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/arm/mm/fault.c

index 9d40c341e07e5846e270934c2b942035cae19f44..8ad75e99e2011b6deaab2d789e9e7d7b7b96649a 100644 (file)
@@ -393,6 +393,9 @@ do_translation_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr,
        if (addr < TASK_SIZE)
                return do_page_fault(addr, fsr, regs);
 
+       if (user_mode(regs))
+               goto bad_area;
+
        index = pgd_index(addr);
 
        /*