This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/mm: Move is_vsyscall_vaddr() into asm/vsyscall.h
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-mm-move-is_vsyscall_vaddr-into-asm-vsyscall.h.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4c71a8e54672087b3c01da6a6edcc6c7397019c5
Author: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Feb 2 18:39:33 2024 +0800
x86/mm: Move is_vsyscall_vaddr() into asm/vsyscall.h
[ Upstream commit ee0e39a63b78849f8abbef268b13e4838569f646 ]
Move is_vsyscall_vaddr() into asm/vsyscall.h to make it available for
copy_from_kernel_nofault_allowed() in arch/x86/mm/maccess.c.
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202103935.3154011-2-houtao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
index ab60a71a8dcb9..472f0263dbc61 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/vsyscall.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include <linux/seqlock.h>
#include <uapi/asm/vsyscall.h>
+#include <asm/page_types.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_VSYSCALL_EMULATION
extern void map_vsyscall(void);
@@ -24,4 +25,13 @@ static inline bool emulate_vsyscall(unsigned long error_code,
}
#endif
+/*
+ * The (legacy) vsyscall page is the long page in the kernel portion
+ * of the address space that has user-accessible permissions.
+ */
+static inline bool is_vsyscall_vaddr(unsigned long vaddr)
+{
+ return unlikely((vaddr & PAGE_MASK) == VSYSCALL_ADDR);
+}
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_VSYSCALL_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 4bfed53e210ec..abc6fbc3d5f21 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -787,15 +787,6 @@ show_signal_msg(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
show_opcodes(regs, loglvl);
}
-/*
- * The (legacy) vsyscall page is the long page in the kernel portion
- * of the address space that has user-accessible permissions.
- */
-static bool is_vsyscall_vaddr(unsigned long vaddr)
-{
- return unlikely((vaddr & PAGE_MASK) == VSYSCALL_ADDR);
-}
-
static void
__bad_area_nosemaphore(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
unsigned long address, u32 pkey, int si_code)
