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From: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>
To: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [V2] powerpc/fscr: Enable interrupts earlier before calling get_user()
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 00:49:28 +1000 (AEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40Ln4T02ZMz9s3B@ozlabs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180329062337.29437-1-khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 06:23:37 UTC, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> The function get_user() can sleep while trying to fetch instruction
> from user address space and causes the following warning from the
> scheduler.
> 
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context
> 
> Though interrupts get enabled back but it happens bit later after
> get_user() is called. This change moves enabling these interrupts
> earlier covering the function get_user(). While at this, lets check
> for kernel mode and crash as this interrupt should not have been
> triggered from the kernel context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/709b973c844c0b4d115ac3a227a2e5

cheers

      reply	other threads:[~2018-04-11 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-29  6:23 [PATCH V2] powerpc/fscr: Enable interrupts earlier before calling get_user() Anshuman Khandual
2018-04-11 14:49 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]

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