ARM: Separate out access error checking
authorRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:53:01 +0000 (12:53 +0100)
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:53:40 +0000 (16:53 +0100)
Since we get notified separately about prefetch aborts, which may be
permission faults, we need to check for appropriate access permissions
when handling a fault.  This patch prepares us for doing this by
separating out the access error checking.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
arch/arm/mm/fault.c

index b8b3bb4423cf433ca2aab05b449db77e08611104..b7ce07d416cd1b825d6d44bf90ba3d7e162d1a1c 100644 (file)
@@ -194,18 +194,33 @@ void do_bad_area(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
 #define VM_FAULT_BADMAP                0x010000
 #define VM_FAULT_BADACCESS     0x020000
 
-static int
+/*
+ * Check that the permissions on the VMA allow for the fault which occurred.
+ * If we encountered a write fault, we must have write permission, otherwise
+ * we allow any permission.
+ */
+static inline bool access_error(unsigned int fsr, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+       unsigned int mask = VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC;
+
+       if (fsr & FSR_WRITE)
+               mask = VM_WRITE;
+
+       return vma->vm_flags & mask ? false : true;
+}
+
+static int __kprobes
 __do_page_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr,
                struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
        struct vm_area_struct *vma;
-       int fault, mask;
+       int fault;
 
        vma = find_vma(mm, addr);
        fault = VM_FAULT_BADMAP;
-       if (!vma)
+       if (unlikely(!vma))
                goto out;
-       if (vma->vm_start > addr)
+       if (unlikely(vma->vm_start > addr))
                goto check_stack;
 
        /*
@@ -213,14 +228,10 @@ __do_page_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr,
         * memory access, so we can handle it.
         */
 good_area:
-       if (fsr & FSR_WRITE)
-               mask = VM_WRITE;
-       else
-               mask = VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_WRITE;
-
-       fault = VM_FAULT_BADACCESS;
-       if (!(vma->vm_flags & mask))
+       if (access_error(fsr, vma)) {
+               fault = VM_FAULT_BADACCESS;
                goto out;
+       }
 
        /*
         * If for any reason at all we couldn't handle the fault, make
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