prevent kprobes from catching spurious page faults

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Prevent kprobes from catching spurious faults which will cause infinite
recursive page-fault and memory corruption by stack overflow.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Masami Hiramatsu 2009-02-05 17:12:39 -05:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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arch/x86/mm/fault.c

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