On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 02:27:10PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c > > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c > > @@ -1500,10 +1500,13 @@ static noinline void > > return; > > > > /* Was the fault on kernel-controlled part of the address space? */ > > - if (unlikely(fault_in_kernel_space(address))) > > + if (unlikely(fault_in_kernel_space(address))) { > > do_kern_addr_fault(regs, hw_error_code, address); > > - else > > + } else { > > do_user_addr_fault(regs, hw_error_code, address); > > + if (regs->flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF) > > + local_irq_disable(); > > + } > > The corresponding irq enable is in do_user_addr_fault(), why not do the > disable there? Yeah, will do. Was just as lazy as Peter and did not want to touch the gazillion of returns. :) Thanks, tglx