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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>2021-02-09 18:33:37 -0800
committerBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2021-02-10 14:12:07 +0100
commitef2544fb3f6457b79fc73cea39dafd67ee0f2824 (patch)
tree5c349fcd160f436085fedaeee430c1a3ea2cf9a1 /arch/x86/mm/fault.c
parentf42a40fd53fb5c77bae67d917d66078dbaa46bc2 (diff)
downloadlinux-ef2544fb3f6457b79fc73cea39dafd67ee0f2824.tar.gz
x86/fault: Document the locking in the fault_signal_pending() path
If fault_signal_pending() returns true, then the core mm has unlocked the
mm for us.  Add a comment to help future readers of this code.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c56de3d103f40e6304437b150aa7b215530d23f7.1612924255.git.luto@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/fault.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/fault.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 3ffed003f281..013910b7b93f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -1380,8 +1380,11 @@ good_area:
 	 */
 	fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags, regs);
 
-	/* Quick path to respond to signals */
 	if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs)) {
+		/*
+		 * Quick path to respond to signals.  The core mm code
+		 * has unlocked the mm for us if we get here.
+		 */
 		if (!user_mode(regs))
 			no_context(regs, error_code, address, SIGBUS,
 				   BUS_ADRERR);