* [GIT pull] core fixes for 3.7
@ 2012-11-20 17:06 Thomas Gleixner
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From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2012-11-20 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: Andrew Morton, Ingo Molnar, LKML
Linus,
please pull the latest core-urgent-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git core-urgent-for-linus
* One line fix, which plugs a rcu_user leak.
Thanks,
tglx
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Frederic Weisbecker (1):
rcu: Fix unrecovered RCU user mode in syscall_trace_leave()
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index b00b33a..eff5b8c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1511,6 +1511,13 @@ void syscall_trace_leave(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
bool step;
+ /*
+ * We may come here right after calling schedule_user()
+ * or do_notify_resume(), in which case we can be in RCU
+ * user mode.
+ */
+ rcu_user_exit();
+
audit_syscall_exit(regs);
if (unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT)))
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