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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h7
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index f1dbb4ee19d7..887d3a7bb646 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ config X86
select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
select ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE if X86_64
- select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE if X86_64
+ select ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_MCSAFE if X86_64 && X86_MCE
select ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY
select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
index 62acb613114b..a9d637bc301d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
@@ -52,7 +52,12 @@ copy_to_user_mcsafe(void *to, const void *from, unsigned len)
unsigned long ret;
__uaccess_begin();
- ret = memcpy_mcsafe(to, from, len);
+ /*
+ * Note, __memcpy_mcsafe() is explicitly used since it can
+ * handle exceptions / faults. memcpy_mcsafe() may fall back to
+ * memcpy() which lacks this handling.
+ */
+ ret = __memcpy_mcsafe(to, from, len);
__uaccess_end();
return ret;
}