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H A Dfault.cdiff 6344be608c039f3a787f1144c46fcb04c0f76561 Mon Nov 19 16:45:25 CST 2018 Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> 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 <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4b89b542e8ceba9bd6abde2f386afed6d99244a9.1542667307.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>