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diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 82881bc5feef..ca38bd0472f2 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -653,6 +653,15 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
unsigned long flags;
int sig;
+ if (user_mode(regs)) {
+ /*
+ * This is an implicit supervisor-mode access from user
+ * mode. Bypass all the kernel-mode recovery code and just
+ * OOPS.
+ */
+ goto oops;
+ }
+
/* Are we prepared to handle this kernel fault? */
if (fixup_exception(regs, X86_TRAP_PF, error_code, address)) {
/*
@@ -738,6 +747,7 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI))
efi_recover_from_page_fault(address);
+oops:
/*
* Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to
* terminate things with extreme prejudice:
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