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x86: prefetch fix #2

Linus noticed a second bug and an uncleanliness:

 - we'd return on any instruction fetch fault

 - we'd use both the value of 16 and the PF_INSTR symbol which are
   the same and make no sense

the cleanup nicely unifies this piece of logic.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar 17 年之前
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      arch/x86/mm/fault.c

+ 4 - 7
arch/x86/mm/fault.c

@@ -91,13 +91,10 @@ static int is_prefetch(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr,
 	int prefetch = 0;
 	unsigned char *max_instr;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-	/* Catch an obscure case of prefetch inside an NX page: */
-	if ((__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX) && (error_code & 16))
-		return 0;
-#endif
-
-	/* If it was a exec fault on NX page, ignore */
+	/*
+	 * If it was a exec (instruction fetch) fault on NX page, then
+	 * do not ignore the fault:
+	 */
 	if (error_code & PF_INSTR)
 		return 0;