• Heiko Carstens's avatar
    s390/mm: fix fault handling for page table walk case · 05e4b43a
    Heiko Carstens authored
    commit 008c2e8f upstream.
    
    Make sure the kernel does not incorrectly create a SIGBUS signal during
    user space accesses:
    
    For user space accesses in the switched addressing mode case the kernel
    may walk page tables and access user address space via the kernel
    mapping. If a page table entry is invalid the function __handle_fault()
    gets called in order to emulate a page fault and trigger all the usual
    actions like paging in a missing page etc. by calling handle_mm_fault().
    
    If handle_mm_fault() returns with an error fixup handling is necessary.
    For the switched addressing mode case all errors need to be mapped to
    -EFAULT, so that the calling uaccess function can return -EFAULT to
    user space.
    
    Unfortunately the __handle_fault() incorrectly calls do_sigbus() if
    VM_FAULT_SIGBUS is set. This however should only happen if a page fault
    was triggered by a user space instruction. For kernel mode uaccesses
    the correct action is to only return -EFAULT.
    So user space may incorrectly see SIGBUS signals because of this bug.
    
    For current machines this would only be possible for the switched
    addressing mode case in conjunction with futex operations.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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