sparc64: Don't bark so loudly about 32-bit tasks generating 64-bit fault addresses.
This was found using Dave Jone's trinity tool.
When a user process which is 32-bit performs a load or a store, the
cpu chops off the top 32-bits of the effective address before
translating it.
This is because we run 32-bit tasks with the PSTATE_AM (address
masking) bit set.
We can't run the kernel with that bit set, so when the kernel accesses
userspace no address masking occurs.
Since a 32-bit process will have no mappings in that region we will
properly fault, so we don't try to handle this using access_ok(),
which can safely just be a NOP on sparc64.
Real faults from 32-bit processes should never generate such addresses
so a bug check was added long ago, and it barks in the logs if this
happens.
But it also barks when a kernel user access causes this condition, and
that _can_ happen. For example, if a pointer passed into a system call
is "0xfffffffc" and the kernel access 4 bytes offset from that pointer.
Just handle such faults normally via the exception entries.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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