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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: olof@austin.ibm.com (Olof Johansson)
Cc: jamie@shareable.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:20:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050222152027.7ace52e8.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050222224256.GA31341@austin.ibm.com>

olof@austin.ibm.com (Olof Johansson) wrote:
>
> +		inc_preempt_count();
> +		ret = get_user(curval, (int __user *)uaddr1);
> +		dec_preempt_count();

That _should_ generate a might_sleep() warning, except it looks like we
forgot to add a check to get_user().

It would be better to use __copy_from_user_inatomic() here, I think.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-22 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-22 19:06 Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 21:16   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:19     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 21:31     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 21:42       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 22:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 22:24           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-02-22 23:08           ` Greg KH
2005-02-22 19:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 21:07   ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:19     ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 22:09       ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:19     ` Chris Friesen
2005-02-22 21:27       ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 21:30     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-22 22:34       ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-22 22:42         ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 23:20           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-02-22 23:23             ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 14:49       ` Joe Korty
2005-02-23 15:54         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 17:10           ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 17:37             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-23 18:22             ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 18:34               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 18:49                 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 19:12                   ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 22:00                     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-24  0:00                     ` Jamie Lokier
2005-02-23 18:37               ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-22 21:40     ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 21:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-02-23 11:39     ` David Howells
2005-02-23 16:22       ` Olof Johansson
2005-02-23 18:44       ` David Howells
2005-02-23 11:42     ` David Howells
2005-02-23 11:24 ` David Howells

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