[PATCH] mmput() might sleep

exit_aio() and exit_mmap() can sleep.  But it's easy to accidentally call
mmput() from inside locks.

Cc: Dave Peterson <dsp@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index ac8100e3088a..195958a3a4d6 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -368,6 +368,8 @@ void fastcall __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
  */
 void mmput(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
+        might_sleep();
+
         if (atomic_dec_and_test(&mm->mm_users)) {
                 exit_aio(mm);
                 exit_mmap(mm);