[PATCH v2] x86: add might_sleep() to do_page_fault()

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jan 29 2009 - 10:02:32 EST



> should go into the 'else' branch i guess? In the down_read() case we
> already had the check.

True.

---
VirtualBox calls do_page_fault() from an atomic context but runs into a
might_sleep() way pas this point, cure that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 6 ++++++
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 67e4df5..bfac289 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -907,6 +907,12 @@ void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
return;
}
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ } else {
+ /*
+ * The above down_read_trylock() might have succeeded in which
+ * case we'll have missed the might_sleep() from down_read().
+ */
+ might_sleep();
}

vma = find_vma(mm, address);


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