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Dave Hansen committed 367e3f1d3fc
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