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Commit f8626854 authored by Andrey Vagin's avatar Andrey Vagin Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86/mm: Handle mm_fault_error() in kernel space



mm_fault_error() should not execute oom-killer, if page fault
occurs in kernel space.  E.g. in copy_from_user()/copy_to_user().

This would happen if we find ourselves in OOM on a
copy_to_user(), or a copy_from_user() which faults.

Without this patch, the kernels hangs up in copy_from_user(),
because OOM killer sends SIG_KILL to current process, but it
can't handle a signal while in syscall, then the kernel returns
to copy_from_user(), reexcute current command and provokes
page_fault again.

With this patch the kernel return -EFAULT from copy_from_user().

The code, which checks that page fault occurred in kernel space,
has been copied from do_sigbus().

This situation is handled by the same way on powerpc, xtensa,
tile, ...

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <201103092322.p29NMNPH001682@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent a7bd1daf
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