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x86/uaccess: Allow access_ok() in irq context if pagefault_disabled

WARN_ON_IN_IRQ() assumes that the access_ok() and following user memory access can sleep. But this assumption is not always correct; when the pagefault is disabled, following memory access will just returns -EFAULT and never sleep. Add pagefault_disabled() check in WARN_ON_ONCE() so that it can ignore the case we call it with disabling pagefault. For this purpose, this modified pagefault_disabled() as an inline function. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789868664.26965.7932665824135793317.stgit@devnote2

Masami Hiramatsu committed 7 years ago

Commit 2d8d8fa1 parent 0c9f2372 files · +7 −2Browse files

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@@ -203,7 +203,10 @@ static inline void pagefault_enable(void) · 202 unmodified lines
203/*203/*
204 * Is the pagefault handler disabled? If so, user access methods will not sleep.204 * Is the pagefault handler disabled? If so, user access methods will not sleep.
205 */205 */
206#define pagefault_disabled() (current->pagefault_disabled != 0)206static inline bool pagefault_disabled(void)
207{
208 return current->pagefault_disabled != 0;
209}
207 210
208/*211/*
209 * The pagefault handler is in general disabled by pagefault_disable() or212 * The pagefault handler is in general disabled by pagefault_disable() or

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