ARM: 6166/1: Proper prefetch abort handling on pre-ARMv6
Instruction faults on pre-ARMv6 CPUs are interpreted as
a 'translation fault', but do_translation_fault doesn't
handle well if user mode trying to run instruction above
TASK_SIZE, and result in the infinite retry of that
instruction.
CC: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anfei Zhou <anfei.zhou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
index 92f5801..cbfb2ed 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
@@ -393,6 +393,9 @@
if (addr < TASK_SIZE)
return do_page_fault(addr, fsr, regs);
+ if (user_mode(regs))
+ goto bad_area;
+
index = pgd_index(addr);
/*