enable interrupts in user path of page fault.

This is a minor fix, but what is currently there is essentially wrong.
In do_page_fault, if the faulting address from user code happens to be
in kernel address space (int *p = (int*)-1; p = 0xbed;)  then the
do_page_fault handler will jump over the local_irq_enable with the

  goto bad_area_nosemaphore;

But the first line there sees this is user code and goes through the
process of sending a signal to send SIGSEGV to the user task. This whole
time interrupts are disabled and the task can not be preempted by a
higher priority task.

This patch always enables interrupts in the user path of the
bad_area_nosemaphore.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/i386/mm/fault.c b/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
index 29d7d61..1ecb3e4 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
@@ -458,6 +458,11 @@ bad_area:
 bad_area_nosemaphore:
        /* User mode accesses just cause a SIGSEGV */
        if (error_code & 4) {
+               /*
+                * It's possible to have interrupts off here.
+                */
+               local_irq_enable();
+
                /* 
                 * Valid to do another page fault here because this one came 
                 * from user space.

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
index bfb62a1..635e58d 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
@@ -476,6 +476,12 @@ bad_area:
 bad_area_nosemaphore:
        /* User mode accesses just cause a SIGSEGV */
        if (error_code & PF_USER) {
+
+               /*
+                * It's possible to have interrupts off here.
+                */
+               local_irq_enable();
+
                if (is_prefetch(regs, address, error_code))
                        return;