[GIT PULL] RISC-V Fixes for 6.0-rc6
Palmer Dabbelt
palmer at rivosinc.com
Fri Sep 16 17:50:37 PDT 2022
On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:09:21 PDT (-0700), Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 8:31 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have one merge conflict as a result of a treewide fix, I'm getting some odd
>> output from just showing the merge (it's showing some of the fix too), but I
>> think the merge itself is OK. My fix is to keep the write lock
>>
>> - mmap_read_lock(mm);
>> ++ mmap_write_lock(mm);
>> + ret = walk_page_range_novma(mm, start, end, &pageattr_ops, NULL,
>> + &masks);
>> - mmap_read_unlock(mm);
>> ++ mmap_write_unlock(mm);
>
> Yes, thatr's the proper merge resolution.
>
> HOWEVER.
>
> Looking at the *callers* of this new __set_memory_mm(), this is all
> completely bogus and broken.
>
> In particular, fix_kernel_mem_early() does that call under rcu_read_lock().
>
> You can't do that. Not with the read-lock, and not with the
> write-lock. You simply cannot (and must not) block while in a
> read-side critical section, and trying to take any sleeping lock -
> whether for reading or for writing - is just completely wrong.
>
> So I'm not doing this pull. The merge resolution is trivial, but the
> code is simply wrong.
Sorry about that, it's pretty brain-dead. I'd love to blame this one on
the lack of sleep over the past week or two, but I'm a bit too tired to
commit to that. Either way I'll go sort it out, but not for this week
-- I don't think anything else was super critical, so it shouldn't be
that big of a problem.
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