Adjust page fault handling From: Jan Beulich Adjust page fault protection error check before considering it to be a vmalloc synchronization candidate. --- 2.6.14/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c 2005-10-28 02:02:08.000000000 +0200 +++ 2.6.14-x86_64-pagefault/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c 2005-11-07 14:27:42.000000000 +0100 @@ -294,7 +294,8 @@ int exception_trace = 1; * bit 0 == 0 means no page found, 1 means protection fault * bit 1 == 0 means read, 1 means write * bit 2 == 0 means kernel, 1 means user-mode - * bit 3 == 1 means fault was an instruction fetch + * bit 3 == 1 means use of reserved bit detected + * bit 4 == 1 means fault was an instruction fetch */ asmlinkage void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code) @@ -349,10 +350,10 @@ asmlinkage void __kprobes do_page_fault( * * This verifies that the fault happens in kernel space * (error_code & 4) == 0, and that the fault was not a - * protection error (error_code & 1) == 0. + * protection error (error_code & 9) == 0. */ if (unlikely(address >= TASK_SIZE64)) { - if (!(error_code & 5) && + if (!(error_code & 0xd) && ((address >= VMALLOC_START && address < VMALLOC_END) || (address >= MODULES_VADDR && address < MODULES_END))) { if (vmalloc_fault(address) < 0)