From: Segher Boessenkool Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:07:04 +0000 (+1000) Subject: [POWERPC] PowerPC: Prevent data exception in kernel space (32-bit) X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc6~72^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ba4ace39fdfe22268daca9f28c5df384ae462cf;p=linux-2.6 [POWERPC] PowerPC: Prevent data exception in kernel space (32-bit) The "is_exec" branch of the protection check in do_page_fault() didn't do anything on 32-bit PowerPC. So if a userland program jumps to a page with Linux protection flags "---p", all the tests happily fall through, and handle_mm_fault() is called, which in turn calls handle_pte_fault(), which calls update_mmu_cache(), which goes flush the dcache to a page with no access rights. Boom. This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool Cc: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c index bfe9013531..115b25f50b 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c @@ -279,14 +279,13 @@ good_area: #endif /* CONFIG_8xx */ if (is_exec) { -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 +#if !(defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE)) /* protection fault */ if (error_code & DSISR_PROTFAULT) goto bad_area; if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC)) goto bad_area; -#endif -#if defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE) +#else pte_t *ptep; pmd_t *pmdp;