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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index f1f1b5a0956a..441c3e9b8971 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ kmmio_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr) * 32-bit mode: * * Sometimes AMD Athlon/Opteron CPUs report invalid exceptions on prefetch. - * Check that here and ignore it. + * Check that here and ignore it. This is AMD erratum #91. * * 64-bit mode: * @@ -83,11 +83,7 @@ check_prefetch_opcode(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned char *instr, #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 case 0x40: /* - * In AMD64 long mode 0x40..0x4F are valid REX prefixes - * Need to figure out under what instruction mode the - * instruction was issued. Could check the LDT for lm, - * but for now it's good enough to assume that long - * mode only uses well known segments or kernel. + * In 64-bit mode 0x40..0x4F are valid REX prefixes */ return (!user_mode(regs) || user_64bit_mode(regs)); #endif @@ -127,20 +123,31 @@ is_prefetch(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long addr) instr = (void *)convert_ip_to_linear(current, regs); max_instr = instr + 15; - if (user_mode(regs) && instr >= (unsigned char *)TASK_SIZE_MAX) - return 0; + /* + * This code has historically always bailed out if IP points to a + * not-present page (e.g. due to a race). No one has ever + * complained about this. + */ + pagefault_disable(); while (instr < max_instr) { unsigned char opcode; - if (get_kernel_nofault(opcode, instr)) - break; + if (user_mode(regs)) { + if (get_user(opcode, instr)) + break; + } else { + if (get_kernel_nofault(opcode, instr)) + break; + } instr++; if (!check_prefetch_opcode(regs, instr, opcode, &prefetch)) break; } + + pagefault_enable(); return prefetch; } |