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Commit 46aea387 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/mm/64: In vmalloc_fault(), use CR3 instead of current->active_mm



If we get a vmalloc fault while current->active_mm->pgd doesn't
match CR3, we'll crash without this change.  I've seen this failure
mode on heavily instrumented kernels with virtually mapped stacks.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4650d7674185f165ed8fdf9ac4c5c35c5c179ba8.1468527351.git.luto@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 98f30b12
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