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This is used in configs lacking hardware atomics to emulate atomic r-m-w for user space, implemented by disabling preemption in kernel. However there are issues in current implementation: 1. Process not terminated if invalid user pointer passed: i.e. __get_user() failed. 2. The reason for this patch was __put_user() failure not being handled either, specifically for the COW break scenario. The zero page is initially wired up and read from __get_user() succeeds. A subsequent write by __put_user() induces a Protection Violation, but COW can't finish as Linux page fault handler is disabled due to preempt disable. And what's worse is we silently return the stale value to user space. Fix this specific case by re-enabling preemption and explicitly fixing up the fault and retrying the whole sequence over. Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> [vgupta: rewrote the changelog] |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.