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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/fault.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index fdc667422df9..ec08d8389850 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -91,12 +91,10 @@ static int is_prefetch(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long addr, int prefetch = 0; unsigned char *max_instr; -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 - if (!(__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX)) - return 0; -#endif - - /* If it was a exec fault on NX page, ignore */ + /* + * If it was a exec (instruction fetch) fault on NX page, then + * do not ignore the fault: + */ if (error_code & PF_INSTR) return 0; |