This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/mm: Remove in_nmi() warning from vmalloc_fault()
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-mm-remove-in_nmi-warning-from-vmalloc_fault.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Sep 17 11:45:57 CEST 2018
From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:48:01 +0200
Subject: x86/mm: Remove in_nmi() warning from vmalloc_fault()
From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 6863ea0cda8725072522cd78bda332d9a0b73150 ]
It is perfectly okay to take page-faults, especially on the
vmalloc area while executing an NMI handler. Remove the
warning.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: David H. Gutteridge <dhgutteridge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: daniel.gruss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: hughd@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: keescook@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Waiman Long <llong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: joro@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532533683-5988-2-git-send-email-joro@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -271,8 +271,6 @@ static noinline int vmalloc_fault(unsign
if (!(address >= VMALLOC_START && address < VMALLOC_END))
return -1;
- WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi());
-
/*
* Synchronize this task's top level page-table
* with the 'reference' page table.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jroedel@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/x86-kexec-allocate-8k-pgds-for-pti.patch
queue-3.18/x86-mm-remove-in_nmi-warning-from-vmalloc_fault.patch
