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author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> | 2021-02-09 18:33:38 -0800 |
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committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2021-02-10 14:13:32 +0100 |
commit | 56e62cd28aaae2fcbec8af67b05843c47c6da170 (patch) | |
tree | ecb551f5ca0bb3cf62f6046bdd62382cd5e3ab27 /drivers | |
parent | ef2544fb3f6457b79fc73cea39dafd67ee0f2824 (diff) |
x86/fault: Correct a few user vs kernel checks wrt WRUSS
In general, page fault errors for WRUSS should be just like get_user(),
etc. Fix three bugs in this area:
There is a comment that says that, if the kernel can't handle a page fault
on a user address due to OOM, the OOM-kill-and-retry logic would be
skipped. The code checked kernel *privilege*, not kernel mode, so it
missed WRUSS. This means that the kernel would malfunction if it got OOM
on a WRUSS fault -- this would be a kernel-mode, user-privilege fault, and
the OOM killer would be invoked and the handler would retry the faulting
instruction.
A failed user access from kernel while a fatal signal is pending should
fail even if the instruction in question was WRUSS.
do_sigbus() should not send SIGBUS for WRUSS -- it should handle it like
any other kernel mode failure.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a7b7bcea730bd4069e6b7e629236bb2cf526c2fb.1612924255.git.luto@kernel.org
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