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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2013-11-13 23:01:43 -0500
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2013-11-20 18:33:37 -0500
commit95f715b08fa4a953771398d20cbe35a6803ea41d (patch)
tree6ccc7e13cb8a501232b3d5b153222fe5cb3c4b7b /arch/powerpc/mm
parent0b5381a61821d1c074c76e01b27bf5f69cf2dd01 (diff)
powerpc: Fix __get_user_pages_fast() irq handling
__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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
index 6936547018b8..c5f734e20b0f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
123 struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm; 123 struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
124 unsigned long addr, len, end; 124 unsigned long addr, len, end;
125 unsigned long next; 125 unsigned long next;
126 unsigned long flags;
126 pgd_t *pgdp; 127 pgd_t *pgdp;
127 int nr = 0; 128 int nr = 0;
128 129
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
156 * So long as we atomically load page table pointers versus teardown, 157 * So long as we atomically load page table pointers versus teardown,
157 * we can follow the address down to the the page and take a ref on it. 158 * we can follow the address down to the the page and take a ref on it.
158 */ 159 */
159 local_irq_disable(); 160 local_irq_save(flags);
160 161
161 pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr); 162 pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
162 do { 163 do {
@@ -179,7 +180,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
179 break; 180 break;
180 } while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end); 181 } while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
181 182
182 local_irq_enable(); 183 local_irq_restore(flags);
183 184
184 return nr; 185 return nr;
185} 186}