x86/mm: Remove spurious fault pkey check
authorDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:02:31 +0000 (09:02 -0700)
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 9 Oct 2018 14:51:16 +0000 (16:51 +0200)
commit367e3f1d3fc9bbf1e626da7aea527f40babf8079
tree0b74e1ef39d680af6299292baeadb7525983d8bf
parent3ae0ad92f53e0f05cf6ab781230b7902b88f73cd
x86/mm: Remove spurious fault pkey check

Spurious faults only ever occur in the kernel's address space.  They
are also constrained specifically to faults with one of these error codes:

X86_PF_WRITE | X86_PF_PROT
X86_PF_INSTR | X86_PF_PROT

So, it's never even possible to reach spurious_kernel_fault_check() with
X86_PF_PK set.

In addition, the kernel's address space never has pages with user-mode
protections.  Protection Keys are only enforced on pages with user-mode
protection.

This gives us lots of reasons to not check for protection keys in our
sprurious kernel fault handling.

But, let's also add some warnings to ensure that these assumptions about
protection keys hold true.

Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180928160231.243A0D6A@viggo.jf.intel.com
arch/x86/mm/fault.c