powerpc: Fix __get_user_pages_fast() irq handling
authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:01:43 +0000 (15:01 +1100)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:33:37 +0000 (10:33 +1100)
__get_user_pages_fast() may be called with interrupts disabled (see e.g.
get_futex_key() in kernel/futex.c) and therefore should use local_irq_save()
and local_irq_restore() instead of local_irq_disable()/enable().

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.12]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c

index 6936547018b89e21bbe63b2371c9607917fd66dd..c5f734e20b0fc3a885a81a82f41a0ac5cd93f94a 100644 (file)
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
        struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
        unsigned long addr, len, end;
        unsigned long next;
+       unsigned long flags;
        pgd_t *pgdp;
        int nr = 0;
 
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
         * So long as we atomically load page table pointers versus teardown,
         * we can follow the address down to the the page and take a ref on it.
         */
-       local_irq_disable();
+       local_irq_save(flags);
 
        pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
        do {
@@ -179,7 +180,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
                        break;
        } while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
 
-       local_irq_enable();
+       local_irq_restore(flags);
 
        return nr;
 }