_user(), because OOM killer sends SIG_KILL to current process, but it can't handle a signal while in syscall, then the kernel returns to copy_from_user(), reexcute current command and provokes page_fault again. With this patch the kernel return -EFAULT from copy_from_user(). The code, which checks that page fault occurred in kernel space, has been copied from do_sigbus(). This situation is handled by the same way on powerpc, xtensa, tile, ... Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: LKML-Reference: <201103092322.p29NMNPH001682@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar ÚiÆ?›0x