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Revision 3f4aa45ceea5789a4aade536acc27f2e0d3da5e1 authored by Vladimir Murzin on 27 November 2014, 10:39:04 UTC, committed by Russell King on 27 November 2014, 15:55:35 UTC 
ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block
 
We cannot restart cacheflush safely if a process provides user-defined
signal handler and signal is pending. In this case -EINTR is returned
and it is expected that process re-invokes syscall. However, there are
a few problems with that:
 * looks like nobody bothers checking return value from cacheflush
 * but if it did, we don't provide the restart address for that, so the
   process has to use the same range again
 * ...and again, what might lead to looping forever

So, remove cacheflush restarting code and terminate cache flushing
as early as fatal signal is pending.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+
Reported-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Tip revision: 3f4aa45ceea5789a4aade536acc27f2e0d3da5e1 authored by Vladimir Murzin on 27 November 2014, 10:39:04 UTC
ARM: 8226/1: cacheflush: get rid of restarting block
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