3.16.48-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 0a33252e060e97ed3fbdcec9517672f1e91aaef3 upstream. lov_getstripe() calls set_fs(KERNEL_DS) so that it can handle a struct lov_user_md pointer from user- or kernel-space. This changes the behavior of copy_from_user() on SPARC and may result in a misaligned access exception which in turn oopses the kernel. In fact the relevant argument to lov_getstripe() is never called with a kernel-space pointer and so changing the address limits is unnecessary and so we remove the calls to save, set, and restore the address limits. Signed-off-by: John L. Hammond <john.hammond@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/6150 Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-3221 Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Li Wei <wei.g.li@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_pack.c | 9 --------- 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_pack.c +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_pack.c @@ -592,18 +592,10 @@ int lov_getstripe(struct obd_export *exp struct lov_mds_md *lmmk = NULL; int rc, lmm_size; int lum_size; - mm_segment_t seg; if (!lsm) return -ENODATA; - /* - * "Switch to kernel segment" to allow copying from kernel space by - * copy_{to,from}_user(). - */ - seg = get_fs(); - set_fs(KERNEL_DS); - /* we only need the header part from user space to get lmm_magic and * lmm_stripe_count, (the header part is common to v1 and v3) */ lum_size = sizeof(struct lov_user_md_v1); @@ -672,6 +664,5 @@ int lov_getstripe(struct obd_export *exp obd_free_diskmd(exp, &lmmk); out_set: - set_fs(seg); return rc; }