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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c index 6fd30ac7d14a..62a50d6d1053 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c @@ -253,8 +253,11 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, if (unlikely(debugger_fault_handler(regs))) goto bail; - /* On a kernel SLB miss we can only check for a valid exception entry */ - if (!user_mode(regs) && (address >= TASK_SIZE)) { + /* + * The kernel should never take an execute fault nor should it + * take a page fault to a kernel address. + */ + if (!user_mode(regs) && (is_exec || (address >= TASK_SIZE))) { rc = SIGSEGV; goto bail; } @@ -391,20 +394,6 @@ good_area: if (is_exec) { /* - * An execution fault + no execute ? - * - * On CPUs that don't have CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE we - * deliberately create NX mappings, and use the fault to do the - * cache flush. This is usually handled in hash_page_do_lazy_icache() - * but we could end up here if that races with a concurrent PTE - * update. In that case we need to fall through here to the VMA - * check below. - */ - if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE) && - (regs->msr & SRR1_ISI_N_OR_G)) - goto bad_area; - - /* * Allow execution from readable areas if the MMU does not * provide separate controls over reading and executing. * |