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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index d0b137d96df1..62a50d6d1053 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -253,8 +253,11 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
if (unlikely(debugger_fault_handler(regs)))
goto bail;
- /* On a kernel SLB miss we can only check for a valid exception entry */
- if (!user_mode(regs) && (address >= TASK_SIZE)) {
+ /*
+ * The kernel should never take an execute fault nor should it
+ * take a page fault to a kernel address.
+ */
+ if (!user_mode(regs) && (is_exec || (address >= TASK_SIZE))) {
rc = SIGSEGV;
goto bail;
}
@@ -404,6 +407,7 @@ good_area:
(cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_NOEXECUTE) ||
!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_WRITE))))
goto bad_area;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU
/*
* protfault should only happen due to us
@@ -512,7 +516,7 @@ void bad_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address, int sig)
/* Are we prepared to handle this fault? */
if ((entry = search_exception_tables(regs->nip)) != NULL) {
- regs->nip = entry->fixup;
+ regs->nip = extable_fixup(entry);
return;
}