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Linus Torvalds 1a8d05a726 VM_FAULT_RETRY fixes
Some of the page fault handlers do not deal with the following case
 correctly:
 	* handle_mm_fault() has returned VM_FAULT_RETRY
 	* there is a pending fatal signal
 	* fault had happened in kernel mode
 Correct action in such case is not "return unconditionally" - fatal
 signals are handled only upon return to userland and something like
 copy_to_user() would end up retrying the faulting instruction and
 triggering the same fault again and again.
 
 What we need to do in such case is to make the caller to treat that
 as failed uaccess attempt - handle exception if there is an exception
 handler for faulting instruction or oops if there isn't one.
 
 Over the years some architectures had been fixed and now are handling
 that case properly; some still do not.  This series should fix the
 remaining ones.
 
 Status:
 	m68k, riscv, hexagon, parisc: tested/acked by maintainers.
 	alpha, sparc32, sparc64: tested locally - bug has been
 reproduced on the unpatched kernel and verified to be fixed by
 this series.
 	ia64, microblaze, nios2, openrisc: build, but otherwise
 completely untested.
 
 Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'pull-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull VM_FAULT_RETRY fixes from Al Viro:
 "Some of the page fault handlers do not deal with the following case
  correctly:

   - handle_mm_fault() has returned VM_FAULT_RETRY

   - there is a pending fatal signal

   - fault had happened in kernel mode

  Correct action in such case is not "return unconditionally" - fatal
  signals are handled only upon return to userland and something like
  copy_to_user() would end up retrying the faulting instruction and
  triggering the same fault again and again.

  What we need to do in such case is to make the caller to treat that as
  failed uaccess attempt - handle exception if there is an exception
  handler for faulting instruction or oops if there isn't one.

  Over the years some architectures had been fixed and now are handling
  that case properly; some still do not. This series should fix the
  remaining ones.

  Status:

   - m68k, riscv, hexagon, parisc: tested/acked by maintainers.

   - alpha, sparc32, sparc64: tested locally - bug has been reproduced
     on the unpatched kernel and verified to be fixed by this series.

   - ia64, microblaze, nios2, openrisc: build, but otherwise completely
     untested"

* tag 'pull-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  openrisc: fix livelock in uaccess
  nios2: fix livelock in uaccess
  microblaze: fix livelock in uaccess
  ia64: fix livelock in uaccess
  sparc: fix livelock in uaccess
  alpha: fix livelock in uaccess
  parisc: fix livelock in uaccess
  hexagon: fix livelock in uaccess
  riscv: fix livelock in uaccess
  m68k: fix livelock in uaccess
2023-03-05 11:07:58 -08:00
arch VM_FAULT_RETRY fixes 2023-03-05 11:07:58 -08:00
block block-6.3-2023-03-03 2023-03-03 10:21:39 -08:00
certs Kbuild updates for v6.3 2023-02-26 11:53:25 -08:00
crypto Networking changes for 6.3. 2023-02-21 18:24:12 -08:00
Documentation sound fixes for 6.3-rc1 2023-03-04 10:53:59 -08:00
drivers Some improvements/fixes for the newly added GXP driver and a Kconfig 2023-03-04 14:48:29 -08:00
fs 17 hotfixes. Eight are for MM and seven are for other parts of the 2023-03-04 13:32:50 -08:00
include Remove Intel compiler support 2023-03-05 10:49:37 -08:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.3 2023-02-26 11:53:25 -08:00
io_uring io_uring-6.3-2023-03-03 2023-03-03 10:25:29 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel 17 hotfixes. Eight are for MM and seven are for other parts of the 2023-03-04 13:32:50 -08:00
lib 17 hotfixes. Eight are for MM and seven are for other parts of the 2023-03-04 13:32:50 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: avoid gcc complaint about pointer casting 2023-03-04 14:03:27 -08:00
net nfsd-6.3 fixes: 2023-03-01 11:03:44 -08:00
rust Rust fixes for 6.3-rc1 2023-03-03 14:51:15 -08:00
samples LoongArch changes for v6.3 2023-03-01 09:27:00 -08:00
scripts Remove Intel compiler support 2023-03-05 10:49:37 -08:00
security capability: just use a 'u64' instead of a 'u32[2]' array 2023-03-01 10:01:22 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 6.3-rc1 2023-03-04 10:53:59 -08:00
tools Changes in this cycle were: 2023-03-02 09:45:34 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM/riscv changes for 6.3 2023-02-15 12:33:28 -05:00
.clang-format media: subdev: Add for_each_active_route() macro 2023-01-22 09:35:57 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files 2023-02-26 15:28:23 +09:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx 2023-02-05 18:51:22 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: map Dikshita Agarwal's old address to his current one 2023-03-02 21:54:24 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS There is no particular theme here - mainly quick hits all over the tree. 2023-02-23 17:55:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS powerpc fixes for 6.3 #2 2023-03-04 11:20:42 -08:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v6.3 2023-02-26 11:53:25 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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