[PATCH] x86: use probe_kernel_address in handle_BUG()
authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:51:15 +0000 (01:51 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:26:20 +0000 (08:26 -0700)
Avoid possible deadlock on a BUG() inside down_write(mmap_sem).  The deadlock
can only occur if something has gone horridly wrong, because a fault here
shouldn't happen.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c

index 21aa1cd..a13037f 100644 (file)
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
 #include <linux/kexec.h>
 #include <linux/unwind.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_EISA
 #include <linux/ioport.h>
@@ -40,7 +41,6 @@
 
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 #include <asm/debugreg.h>
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ static void handle_BUG(struct pt_regs *regs)
 
        if (eip < PAGE_OFFSET)
                return;
-       if (__get_user(ud2, (unsigned short __user *)eip))
+       if (probe_kernel_address((unsigned short __user *)eip, ud2))
                return;
        if (ud2 != 0x0b0f)
                return;
@@ -422,7 +422,8 @@ static void handle_BUG(struct pt_regs *regs)
                char *file;
                char c;
 
-               if (__get_user(line, (unsigned short __user *)(eip + 2)))
+               if (probe_kernel_address((unsigned short __user *)(eip + 2),
+                                       line))
                        break;
                if (__get_user(file, (char * __user *)(eip + 4)) ||
                    (unsigned long)file < PAGE_OFFSET || __get_user(c, file))