lockdep, mm: fix might_fault() annotation

Some code (nfs/sunrpc) uses socket ops on kernel memory while holding
the mmap_sem, this is safe because kernel memory doesn't get paged out,
therefore we'll never actually fault, and the might_fault() annotations
will generate false positives.

Reported-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index e009ce870859..c2d4c477e5bb 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3165,6 +3165,15 @@ void print_vma_addr(char *prefix, unsigned long ip)
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
 void might_fault(void)
 {
+        /*
+         * Some code (nfs/sunrpc) uses socket ops on kernel memory while
+         * holding the mmap_sem, this is safe because kernel memory doesn't
+         * get paged out, therefore we'll never actually fault, and the
+         * below annotations will generate false positives.
+         */
+        if (segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS))
+                return;
+
         might_sleep();
         /*
          * it would be nicer only to annotate paths which are not under