Re: [PATCH 09/10] riscv: fix livelock in uaccess

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Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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>

Reproduced with Mark's userland program -- thanks!

Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxx>




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