Commit 95156f00 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar

lockdep, mm: fix might_fault() annotation

Some code (nfs/sunrpc) uses socket ops on kernel memory while holding
the mmap_sem, this is safe because kernel memory doesn't get paged out,
therefore we'll never actually fault, and the might_fault() annotations
will generate false positives.
Reported-by: default avatar"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 9d079337
......@@ -3165,6 +3165,15 @@ void print_vma_addr(char *prefix, unsigned long ip)
#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
void might_fault(void)
{
/*
* Some code (nfs/sunrpc) uses socket ops on kernel memory while
* holding the mmap_sem, this is safe because kernel memory doesn't
* get paged out, therefore we'll never actually fault, and the
* below annotations will generate false positives.
*/
if (segment_eq(get_fs(), KERNEL_DS))
return;
might_sleep();
/*
* it would be nicer only to annotate paths which are not under
......
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