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authorRussell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>2005-09-20 17:52:13 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2005-09-20 17:52:13 +0100
commit840ff6a4f6174d7fe19c206b5f36ff64123a2f45 (patch)
tree1b66816135fad5a97d5ea0862b95341278f4227f /arch/arm
parent5fe10ab19046d84f3fd243436cbd5fa01019e809 (diff)
[ARM] Prevent deadlock in page fault handler
As per x86, we may deadlock while trying to get the mmap semaphore. Implement the same fix, which allows (eg) recursive faults to cause an oops instead of deadlocking. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/fault.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
index 0b6c4db44e0..4a884baf3b9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
@@ -233,7 +233,17 @@ do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
if (in_interrupt() || !mm)
goto no_context;
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ /*
+ * As per x86, we may deadlock here. However, since the kernel only
+ * validly references user space from well defined areas of the code,
+ * we can bug out early if this is from code which shouldn't.
+ */
+ if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
+ if (!user_mode(regs) && !search_exception_tables(regs->ARM_pc))
+ goto no_context;
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ }
+
fault = __do_page_fault(mm, addr, fsr, tsk);
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);