On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 9:07 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> riscv equivalent of 26178ec11ef3 "x86: mm: consolidate VM_FAULT_RETRY handling"
> If e.g. get_user() triggers a page fault and a fatal signal is caught, we might
> end up with handle_mm_fault() returning VM_FAULT_RETRY and not doing anything
> to page tables. In such case we must *not* return to the faulting insn -
> that would repeat the entire thing without making any progress; what we need
> instead is to treat that as failed (user) memory access.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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