adulau/aha
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/adulau/aha.git synced 2024-12-28 19:56:18 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity

cow_user_page: fix page alignment

Browse source 
High Dickins points out that the user virtual address passed to the page
fault handler isn't necessarily page-aligned.

Also, add a comment on why the copy could fail for the user address case.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Linus Torvalds 2005-11-29 14:07:55 -08:00
parent c9cfcddfd6
commit 5d2a2dbbc1
1 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

11
mm/memory.c
View file

@ -1394,8 +1394,15 @@ static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned lo
*/
if (unlikely(!src)) {
void *kaddr = kmap_atomic(dst, KM_USER0);
unsigned long left = __copy_from_user_inatomic(kaddr, (void __user *)va, PAGE_SIZE);
if (left)
void __user *uaddr = (void __user *)(va & PAGE_MASK);
/*
* This really shouldn't fail, because the page is there
* in the page tables. But it might just be unreadable,
* in which case we just give up and fill the result with
* zeroes.
*/
if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(kaddr, uaddr, PAGE_SIZE))
memset(kaddr, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
return;