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authorAnfei <anfei.zhou@gmail.com>2010-06-08 15:16:49 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2010-06-08 19:39:57 +0100
commit5e27fb78df95e027723af2c90ecc9b4527ae59e9 (patch)
tree4f91874c2d4b2beef198e9116a500a76e5751cff /arch/arm
parent17ebba1fe4da4b5d62782be8743e0e8231812af9 (diff)
downloadlinux-5e27fb78df95e027723af2c90ecc9b4527ae59e9.tar.gz
ARM: 6166/1: Proper prefetch abort handling on pre-ARMv6
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. CC: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Anfei Zhou <anfei.zhou@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/fault.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
index 92f5801f99c1..cbfb2edcf7d1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
@@ -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);
/*