[PATCH 2/2] ARC: show_regs: fix lockdep splat for good

[Vineet Gupta]

signal handling core calls ARCH show_regs() with preemption disabled
which causes __might_sleep functions such as mmput leading to lockdep
splat.  Workaround by re-enabling preemption temporarily.

This may not be as bad as it sounds since the preemption disabling
itself was introduced for a supressing smp_processor_id() warning in x86
code by commit 3a9f84d354ce ("signals, debug: fix BUG: using
smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in print_fatal_signal()")

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c b/arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c
index 2885bec71fb8..c650d3de13e1 100644
--- a/arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c
+++ b/arch/arc/kernel/troubleshoot.c
@@ -177,6 +177,12 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 	struct callee_regs *cregs;
 
+	/*
+	 * generic code calls us with preemption disabled, but some calls
+	 * here could sleep, so re-enable to avoid lockdep splat
+	 */
+	preempt_enable();
+
 	print_task_path_n_nm(tsk);
 	show_regs_print_info(KERN_INFO);
 
@@ -219,6 +225,8 @@ void show_regs(struct pt_regs *regs)
 	cregs = (struct callee_regs *)current->thread.callee_reg;
 	if (cregs)
 		show_callee_regs(cregs);
+
+	preempt_disable();
 }
 
 void show_kernel_fault_diag(const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs,
-- 
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