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author | Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> | 2011-10-01 18:58:13 -0700 |
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committer | Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> | 2012-02-15 10:32:43 -0600 |
commit | 424cb6a4ce73ca542a681c7372d203a5a8a328e8 (patch) | |
tree | 184b2327958a5aab22d08d297d52b57d35359ff2 /arch/arm/mach-shmobile | |
parent | d3a2559cc7b47c284756097b0068390c5af34e77 (diff) |
ARM: Initialize ptl->lock for vector page
Without this patch, ARM can not use SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS if
PREEMPT_RT_FULL=y because vectors_user_mapping() creates a
VM_ALWAYSDUMP mapping of the vector page (address 0xffff0000), but no
ptl->lock has been allocated for the page. An attempt to coredump
that page will result in a kernel NULL pointer dereference when
follow_page() attempts to lock the page.
The call tree to the NULL pointer dereference is:
do_notify_resume()
get_signal_to_deliver()
do_coredump()
elf_core_dump()
get_dump_page()
__get_user_pages()
follow_page()
pte_offset_map_lock() <----- a #define
...
rt_spin_lock()
The underlying problem is exposed by mm-shrink-the-page-frame-to-rt-size.patch.
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com>
Cc: Frank <Frank_Rowand@sonyusa.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E87C535.2030907@am.sony.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mach-shmobile')
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