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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2018-05-03 17:06:26 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-05-15 08:32:42 +0200
commit12c89130a56ae8e8d85db753d70333c4ee0ea835 (patch)
treeb3ec091a965a9a0674c005e6d5b0df429c5c70a3 /lib
parent60622d68227d6d71fdfba5fb39f7f3d44cdd8815 (diff)
x86/asm/memcpy_mcsafe: Add write-protection-fault handling
In preparation for using memcpy_mcsafe() to handle user copies it needs to be to handle write-protection faults while writing user pages. Add MMU-fault handlers alongside the machine-check exception handlers. Note that the machine check fault exception handling makes assumptions about source buffer alignment and poison alignment. In the write fault case, given the destination buffer is arbitrarily aligned, it needs a separate / additional fault handling approach. The mcsafe_handle_tail() helper is reused. The @limit argument is set to @len since there is no safety concern about retriggering an MMU fault, and this simplifies the assembly. Co-developed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Reported-by: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: hch@lst.de Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152539238635.31796.14056325365122961778.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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