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Commit dbe3ed1c authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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x86-64: page faults from user mode are always user faults



Randy Dunlap noticed an interesting "crashme" behaviour on his dual
Prescott Xeon setup, where he gets page faults with the error code
having a zero "user" bit, but the register state points back to user
mode.

This may be a CPU microcode buglet triggered by some strange instruction
pattern that crashme generates, and loading a microcode update seems to
possibly have fixed it.

Regardless, we really should trust the register state more than the
error code, since it's really the register state that determines whether
we can actually send a signal, or whether we're in kernel mode and need
to oops/kill the process in the case of a page fault.

Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 4f01a757
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