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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/5] powerpc/mm: split store_updates_sp() in two parts in do_page_fault()
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Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> writes:

> Only the get_user() in store_updates_sp() has to be done outside
> the mm semaphore. All the comparison can be done within the semaphore,
> so only when really needed.
>
> As we got a DSI exception, the address pointed by regs->nip is
> obviously valid, otherwise we would have had a instruction exception.
> So __get_user() can be used instead of get_user()

I don't think that part is true.

You took a DSI so there *was* an instruction at NIP, but since then it
may have been unmapped by another thread.

So I don't think you can assume the get_user() will succeed.

cheers

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