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authorDavid Hildenbrand <[email protected]>2015-05-11 17:52:07 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2015-05-19 08:39:14 +0200
commit9ec23531fd48031d1b6ca5366f5f967d17a8bc28 (patch)
treed7c3ff5a272fcde6d0bfffd28a2063bb0f69e696 /include/linux
parent8bcbde5480f9777f8b74d71493722c663e22c21b (diff)
sched/preempt, mm/fault: Trigger might_sleep() in might_fault() with disabled pagefaults
Commit 662bbcb2747c ("mm, sched: Allow uaccess in atomic with pagefault_disable()") removed might_sleep() checks for all user access code (that uses might_fault()). The reason was to disable wrong "sleep in atomic" warnings in the following scenario: pagefault_disable() rc = copy_to_user(...) pagefault_enable() Which is valid, as pagefault_disable() increments the preempt counter and therefore disables the pagefault handler. copy_to_user() will not sleep and return an error code if a page is not available. However, as all might_sleep() checks are removed, CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP would no longer detect the following scenario: spin_lock(&lock); rc = copy_to_user(...) spin_unlock(&lock) If the kernel is compiled with preemption turned on, preempt_disable() will make in_atomic() detect disabled preemption. The fault handler would correctly never sleep on user access. However, with preemption turned off, preempt_disable() is usually a NOP (with !CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT), therefore in_atomic() will not be able to detect disabled preemption nor disabled pagefaults. The fault handler could sleep. We really want to enable CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP checks for user access functions again, otherwise we can end up with horrible deadlocks. Root of all evil is that pagefault_disable() acts almost as preempt_disable(), depending on preemption being turned on/off. As we now have pagefault_disabled(), we can use it to distinguish whether user acces functions might sleep. Convert might_fault() into a makro that calls __might_fault(), to allow proper file + line messages in case of a might_sleep() warning. Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kernel.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index 3a5b48e52a9e..060dd7b61c6d 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -244,7 +244,8 @@ static inline u32 reciprocal_scale(u32 val, u32 ep_ro)
#if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && \
(defined(CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) || defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP))
-void might_fault(void);
+#define might_fault() __might_fault(__FILE__, __LINE__)
+void __might_fault(const char *file, int line);
#else
static inline void might_fault(void) { }
#endif