[RFC PATCH] vfs: Fix might sleep in load_unaligned_zeropad() with rcu read lock held

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 06:48:20PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> It's been years since I looked at 32bit arm exception handling, so I'd need
> quite a bit of (re)RTF{S,M} before I'm comfortable with poking in
> arch/arm/mm/fault.c; better let ARM folks deal with that.  But arch/* is
> where it should be dealt with; as for papering over that in fs/*:

Don't expect that to happen. I've not looked at it for over a decade,
I do very little 32-bit ARM stuff anymore. Others have modified the
fault handling, the VM has changed, I basically no longer have the
knowledge. Effectively, 32-bit ARM is unmaintained now, although it
still has many users.

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