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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC] x86: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 05:21:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130502022134.GA7700@redhat.com> (raw)

The only reason uaccess routines might sleep
is if they fault. Make this explicit for
__copy_from_user_nocache, and consistent with
copy_from_user and friends.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---

I've updated all other arches as well - still
build-testing. Any objections to the x86 patch?

 arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
index 142810c..4f7923d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ extern long __copy_user_nocache(void *dst, const void __user *src,
 static inline int
 __copy_from_user_nocache(void *dst, const void __user *src, unsigned size)
 {
-	might_sleep();
+	might_fault();
 	return __copy_user_nocache(dst, src, size, 1);
 }
 
-- 
MST

             reply	other threads:[~2013-05-02  2:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-02  2:21 Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2013-05-02  8:52 ` [PATCH RFC] x86: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/ Ingo Molnar
2013-05-02 13:28   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-05-07 10:11     ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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