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Commit 4031ff38 authored by Aleksey Gorelov's avatar Aleksey Gorelov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] fix broken vm86 interrupt/signal handling

Commit c3ff8ec3

 ("[PATCH] i386: Don't
miss pending signals returning to user mode after signal processing")
meant that vm86 interrupt/signal handling got broken for the case when
vm86 is called from kernel space.

In this scenario, if signal is pending because of vm86 interrupt,
do_notify_resume/do_signal exits immediately due to user_mode() check,
without processing any signals.  Thus, resume_userspace handler is spinning
in a tight loop with signal pending and TIF_SIGPENDING is set.  Previously
everything worked Ok.

No in-tree usage of vm86() from kernel space exists, but I've heard
about a number of projects out there which use vm86 calls from kernel,
one of them being this, for instance:

	http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/

The following patch fixes the issue.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAleksey Gorelov <aleksey_gorelov@phoenix.com>
Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent c723e084
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