x86: check PMD in spurious_fault handler
Impact: fix to prevent hard lockup on bad PMD permissions
If the PMD does not have the correct permissions for a page access,
but the PTE does, the spurious fault handler will mistake the fault
as a lazy TLB transaction. This will result in an infinite loop of:
fault -> spurious_fault check (pass) -> return to code -> fault
This patch adds a check and a warn on if the PTE passes the permissions
but the PMD does not.
[ Updated: Ingo Molnar suggested using WARN_ONCE with some text ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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