If a uaccess (e.g. get_user()) triggers a fault and there's a fault signal pending, the handler will return to the uaccess without having performed a uaccess fault fixup, and so the CPU will immediately execute the uaccess instruction again, whereupon it will livelock bouncing between that instruction and the fault handler.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210121123140.GD48431@C02TD0UTHF1T.local/ Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvb...@gmail.com> --- arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c b/arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c index 7666408ce12a..95a74890c7e9 100644 --- a/arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c @@ -112,8 +112,11 @@ void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs) */ fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags, regs); - if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs)) + if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs)) { + if (!user_mode(regs)) + goto bad_page_fault; return; + } if (unlikely(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR)) { if (fault & VM_FAULT_OOM) -- 2.20.1
