Re: [PATCH] x86: add might_sleep() to do_page_fault()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> VirtualBox calls do_page_fault() from an atomic context but runs into a
> might_sleep() way pas this point, cure that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/fault.c |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index 67e4df5..bb7f946 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> @@ -908,6 +908,11 @@ void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
>  		}
>  		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>  	}
> +	/*
> +	 * The above down_read_trylock() might have succeeded in which case
> +	 * we'll have missed the might_sleep() from down_read().
> +	 */
> +	might_sleep();

should go into the 'else' branch i guess? In the down_read() case we 
already had the check.

	Ingo