Patch "IB/ipath: Convert ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages() to use get_user_pages_fast()" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    IB/ipath: Convert ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages() to use get_user_pages_fast()

to the 3.10-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:
     ib-ipath-convert-ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages-to-use-get_user_pages_fast.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 4adcf7fb6783e354aab38824d803fa8c4f8e8a27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 09:29:06 -0400
Subject: IB/ipath: Convert ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages() to use get_user_pages_fast()

From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

commit 4adcf7fb6783e354aab38824d803fa8c4f8e8a27 upstream.

ipath_user_sdma_queue_pkts() gets called with mmap_sem held for
writing.  Except for get_user_pages() deep down in
ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages() we don't seem to need mmap_sem at all.

Even more interestingly the function ipath_user_sdma_queue_pkts() (and
also ipath_user_sdma_coalesce() called somewhat later) call
copy_from_user() which can hit a page fault and we deadlock on trying
to get mmap_sem when handling that fault.  So just make
ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages() use get_user_pages_fast() and leave
mmap_sem locking for mm.

This deadlock has actually been observed in the wild when the node
is under memory pressure.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Merged in fix for call to get_user_pages_fast from Tetsuo Handa
  <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.  - Roland ]
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_user_sdma.c |    7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_user_sdma.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_user_sdma.c
@@ -280,9 +280,7 @@ static int ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages(con
 	int j;
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr,
-			     npages, 0, 1, pages, NULL);
-
+	ret = get_user_pages_fast(addr, npages, 0, pages);
 	if (ret != npages) {
 		int i;
 
@@ -811,10 +809,7 @@ int ipath_user_sdma_writev(struct ipath_
 	while (dim) {
 		const int mxp = 8;
 
-		down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
 		ret = ipath_user_sdma_queue_pkts(dd, pq, &list, iov, dim, mxp);
-		up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
-
 		if (ret <= 0)
 			goto done_unlock;
 		else {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are

queue-3.10/ib-ipath-convert-ipath_user_sdma_pin_pages-to-use-get_user_pages_fast.patch
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