This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xtensa: fix preemption in {clear,copy}_user_highpage to the 4.5-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: xtensa-fix-preemption-in-clear-copy-_user_highpage.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a67cc9aa2dfc6e66addf240bbd79e16e01565e81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:27:51 +0300 Subject: xtensa: fix preemption in {clear,copy}_user_highpage From: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> commit a67cc9aa2dfc6e66addf240bbd79e16e01565e81 upstream. Disabling pagefault makes little sense there, preemption disabling is what was meant. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/xtensa/mm/cache.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/xtensa/mm/cache.c +++ b/arch/xtensa/mm/cache.c @@ -97,11 +97,11 @@ void clear_user_highpage(struct page *pa unsigned long paddr; void *kvaddr = coherent_kvaddr(page, TLBTEMP_BASE_1, vaddr, &paddr); - pagefault_disable(); + preempt_disable(); kmap_invalidate_coherent(page, vaddr); set_bit(PG_arch_1, &page->flags); clear_page_alias(kvaddr, paddr); - pagefault_enable(); + preempt_enable(); } void copy_user_highpage(struct page *dst, struct page *src, @@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ void copy_user_highpage(struct page *dst void *src_vaddr = coherent_kvaddr(src, TLBTEMP_BASE_2, vaddr, &src_paddr); - pagefault_disable(); + preempt_disable(); kmap_invalidate_coherent(dst, vaddr); set_bit(PG_arch_1, &dst->flags); copy_page_alias(dst_vaddr, src_vaddr, dst_paddr, src_paddr); - pagefault_enable(); + preempt_enable(); } #endif /* DCACHE_WAY_SIZE > PAGE_SIZE */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/xtensa-iss-don-t-hang-if-stdin-eof-is-reached.patch queue-4.5/xtensa-clear-all-dbreakc-registers-on-start.patch queue-4.5/xtensa-fix-preemption-in-clear-copy-_user_highpage.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html