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arm64: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal
authorMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:19:22 +0000 (15:19 +0100)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:15:42 +0000 (18:15 +0100)
commit289d07a2dc6c6b6f3e4b8a62669320d99dbe6c3d
treeb2e3d5317f654c4bc1bacfff4c16c5d9431199a5
parent096622104e14d8a1db4860bd557717067a0515d2
arm64: mm: abort uaccess retries upon fatal signal

When there's a fatal signal pending, arm64's do_page_fault()
implementation returns 0. The intent is that we'll return to the
faulting userspace instruction, delivering the signal on the way.

However, if we take a fatal signal during fixing up a uaccess, this
results in a return to the faulting kernel instruction, which will be
instantly retried, resulting in the same fault being taken forever. As
the task never reaches userspace, the signal is not delivered, and the
task is left unkillable. While the task is stuck in this state, it can
inhibit the forward progress of the system.

To avoid this, we must ensure that when a fatal signal is pending, we
apply any necessary fixup for a faulting kernel instruction. Thus we
will return to an error path, and it is up to that code to make forward
progress towards delivering the fatal signal.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Tested-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Tested-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c