arm: if we get into work_pending while returning to kernel mode, just go away

checking in do_signal() is pointless - if we get there with !user_mode(regs)
(and we might), we'll end up looping indefinitely.  Check in work_pending
and break out of the loop if so.

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This commit is contained in:
Al Viro 2012-04-28 17:51:42 -04:00
parent d9be5ea6f9
commit 21c1176a72
2 changed files with 3 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ work_pending:
/*
* TIF_SIGPENDING or TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME must've been set if we got here
*/
ldr r2, [sp, #S_PSR]
mov r0, sp @ 'regs'
tst r2, #15 @ are we returning to user mode?
bne no_work_pending @ no? just leave, then...
mov r2, why @ 'syscall'
tst r1, #_TIF_SIGPENDING @ delivering a signal?
movne why, #0 @ prevent further restarts

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@ -608,15 +608,6 @@ static void do_signal(struct pt_regs *regs, int syscall)
siginfo_t info;
int signr;
/*
* We want the common case to go fast, which
* is why we may in certain cases get here from
* kernel mode. Just return without doing anything
* if so.
*/
if (!user_mode(regs))
return;
/*
* If we were from a system call, check for system call restarting...
*/