x86/fault: Check user_mode(regs) when avoiding an mmap_sem deadlock

The fault-handling code that takes mmap_sem needs to avoid a
deadlock that could occur if the kernel took a bad (OOPS-worthy)
page fault on a user address while holding mmap_sem.  This can only
happen if the faulting instruction was in the kernel
(i.e. user_mode(regs)).  Rather than checking the sw_error_code
(which will have the USER bit set if the fault was a USER-permission
access *or* if user_mode(regs)), just check user_mode(regs)
directly.

The old code would have malfunctioned if the kernel executed a bogus
WRUSS instruction while holding mmap_sem.  Fortunately, that is
extremely unlikely in current kernels, which don't use WRUSS.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4b89b542e8ceba9bd6abde2f386afed6d99244a9.1542667307.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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