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powerpc: Fix __get_user_pages_fast() irq handling

__get_user_pages_fast() may be called with interrupts disabled (see e.g.
get_futex_key() in kernel/futex.c) and therefore should use local_irq_save()
and local_irq_restore() instead of local_irq_disable()/enable().

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.12]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Heiko Carstens 11 years ago
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95f715b08f
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 3 2
      arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c

+ 3 - 2
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c

@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
 	unsigned long addr, len, end;
 	unsigned long next;
+	unsigned long flags;
 	pgd_t *pgdp;
 	int nr = 0;
 
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 	 * So long as we atomically load page table pointers versus teardown,
 	 * we can follow the address down to the the page and take a ref on it.
 	 */
-	local_irq_disable();
+	local_irq_save(flags);
 
 	pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
 	do {
@@ -179,7 +180,7 @@ int __get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 			break;
 	} while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
 
-	local_irq_enable();
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 
 	return nr;
 }