Commit 5d2a2dbb authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds

cow_user_page: fix page alignment

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: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent c9cfcddf
......@@ -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;
......
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