The following changes since commit c9c3395d5e3dcc6daee66c6908354d47bf98cb0c:
Linux 6.2 (2023-02-19 14:24:22 -0800)
are available in the Git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git tags/pull-fixes
for you to fetch changes up to caa82ae7ef52b7cf5f80a2b2fbcbdbcfd16426cc:
openrisc: fix livelock in uaccess (2023-03-02 12:32:44 -0500)
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VM_FAULT_RETRY fixes
Some of the page fault handlers do not deal with the following case
correctly:
* handle_mm_fault() has returned VM_FAULT_RETRY
* there is a pending fatal signal
* fault had happened in kernel mode
Correct action in such case is not "return unconditionally" - fatal
signals are handled only upon return to userland and something like
copy_to_user() would end up retrying the faulting instruction and
triggering the same fault again and again.
What we need to do in such case is to make the caller to treat that
as failed uaccess attempt - handle exception if there is an exception
handler for faulting instruction or oops if there isn't one.
Over the years some architectures had been fixed and now are handling
that case properly; some still do not. This series should fix the
remaining ones.
Status:
m68k, riscv, hexagon, parisc: tested/acked by maintainers.
alpha, sparc32, sparc64: tested locally - bug has been
reproduced on the unpatched kernel and verified to be fixed by
this series.
ia64, microblaze, nios2, openrisc: build, but otherwise
completely untested.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Al Viro (10):
m68k: fix livelock in uaccess
riscv: fix livelock in uaccess
hexagon: fix livelock in uaccess
parisc: fix livelock in uaccess
alpha: fix livelock in uaccess
sparc: fix livelock in uaccess
ia64: fix livelock in uaccess
microblaze: fix livelock in uaccess
nios2: fix livelock in uaccess
openrisc: fix livelock in uaccess
arch/alpha/mm/fault.c | 5 ++++-
arch/hexagon/mm/vm_fault.c | 5 ++++-
arch/ia64/mm/fault.c | 5 ++++-
arch/m68k/mm/fault.c | 5 ++++-
arch/microblaze/mm/fault.c | 5 ++++-
arch/nios2/mm/fault.c | 5 ++++-
arch/openrisc/mm/fault.c | 5 ++++-
arch/parisc/mm/fault.c | 7 ++++++-
arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 5 ++++-
arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c | 5 ++++-
arch/sparc/mm/fault_64.c | 7 ++++++-
11 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
