On 03/12/2015, 05:16 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> index 5b90bbcad9f6..d9d8d91a64ff 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> @@ -873,6 +873,8 @@ mm_fault_error(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
>> if (fault & (VM_FAULT_SIGBUS|VM_FAULT_HWPOISON|
>> VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE))
>> do_sigbus(regs, error_code, address, fault);
>> + else if (fault & VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV)
>> + bad_area_nosemaphore(regs, error_code, address);
>> else
>> BUG();
>> }
>
> Just double-checking that you are aware that this semantically depends
> on commit 7fb08eca4527 ("x86: mm: move mmap_sem unlock from
> mm_fault_error() to caller"). We had that back-porting bug at least
> twice, because it was so subtle.
>
> So either you need to backport 7fb08eca4527 too before (so that we
> really have dropped the semaphore at this point), or that
> "bad_area_nosemaphore()" needs to be just a "bad_area()" instead,
> because we still hold the semaphore.
Thanks for the heads-up. Despite I saw that one coming along with the
series to 3.10, I didn't include it due to a bit misleading commit
message. From that, it occurred to me like a cleanup.
Now included. Thanks.
--
js
suse labs
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