A lot of callers of kvfree only go down the vfree path under very rare
circumstances, and so may never end up hitting the might_sleep_if in it.
Ensure that when kvfree is called, that it is operating in a context
where it is allowed to sleep.
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/util.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index e6351a80f248..81ec2a003c86 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -482,6 +482,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kvmalloc_node);
*/
void kvfree(const void *addr)
{
+ might_sleep_if(!in_interrupt());
+
if (is_vmalloc_addr(addr))
vfree(addr);
else
--
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