We found this issue in an legacy out-of-tree kernel module which didn't properly access user space pointer by get/put_user(). Such an illegal access loops in the page fault handler. To resolve this, let it die here.
Signed-off-by: Eric Lin <tesh...@andestech.com> Cc: Alan Kao <alan...@andestech.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penb...@kernel.org> --- arch/riscv/mm/fault.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c index 0d5f06d6e3c7..33d284188f9a 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c @@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs) if (user_mode(regs)) flags |= FAULT_FLAG_USER; + if (!user_mode(regs) && addr < TASK_SIZE && + unlikely(!(regs->status & SR_SUM))) + die_kernel_fault("access to user memory without uaccess routines", + addr, regs); + perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, regs, addr); if (cause == EXC_STORE_PAGE_FAULT) -- 2.17.0