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authorDan Williams <[email protected]>2018-05-03 17:06:26 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2018-05-15 08:32:42 +0200
commit12c89130a56ae8e8d85db753d70333c4ee0ea835 (patch)
treeb3ec091a965a9a0674c005e6d5b0df429c5c70a3 /scripts/gdb/vmlinux-gdb.py
parent60622d68227d6d71fdfba5fb39f7f3d44cdd8815 (diff)
x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Add write-protection-fault handling
In preparation for using memcpy_mcsafe() to handle user copies it needs to be to handle write-protection faults while writing user pages. Add MMU-fault handlers alongside the machine-check exception handlers. Note that the machine check fault exception handling makes assumptions about source buffer alignment and poison alignment. In the write fault case, given the destination buffer is arbitrarily aligned, it needs a separate / additional fault handling approach. The mcsafe_handle_tail() helper is reused. The @limit argument is set to @len since there is no safety concern about retriggering an MMU fault, and this simplifies the assembly. Co-developed-by: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Reported-by: Mika Penttilä <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539238635.31796.14056325365122961778.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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