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Patch "x86/mm: Remove in_nmi() warning from vmalloc_fault()" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

Message ID 153718047494252@kroah.com (mailing list archive)
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Series Patch "x86/mm: Remove in_nmi() warning from vmalloc_fault()" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree | expand

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Greg KH Sept. 17, 2018, 10:34 a.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/mm: Remove in_nmi() warning from vmalloc_fault()

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-mm-remove-in_nmi-warning-from-vmalloc_fault.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


From foo@baz Mon Sep 17 12:33:31 CEST 2018
From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:48:01 +0200
Subject: x86/mm: Remove in_nmi() warning from vmalloc_fault()

From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>

[ Upstream commit 6863ea0cda8725072522cd78bda332d9a0b73150 ]

It is perfectly okay to take page-faults, especially on the
vmalloc area while executing an NMI handler. Remove the
warning.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: David H. Gutteridge <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: aliguori@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hughd@google.com
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <llong@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: joro@8bytes.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532533683-5988-2-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)



Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jroedel@suse.de are

queue-4.14/x86-kexec-allocate-8k-pgds-for-pti.patch
queue-4.14/iommu-ipmmu-vmsa-fix-allocation-in-atomic-context.patch
queue-4.14/x86-mm-remove-in_nmi-warning-from-vmalloc_fault.patch
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Patch

--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -317,8 +317,6 @@  static noinline int vmalloc_fault(unsign
 	if (!(address >= VMALLOC_START && address < VMALLOC_END))
 		return -1;
 
-	WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi());
-
 	/*
 	 * Synchronize this task's top level page-table
 	 * with the 'reference' page table.