vfree() is going to use sleeping lock. free_ldt_struct()
may be called with disabled preemption, therefore we must
use vfree_atomic() here.
E.g. call trace:
vfree()
free_ldt_struct()
destroy_context_ldt()
__mmdrop()
finish_task_switch()
schedule_tail()
ret_from_fork()
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <redacted>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <redacted>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jisheng Zhang <redacted>
Cc: Chris Wilson <redacted>
Cc: John Dias <redacted>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
---
arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
index 6707039..4d12cdf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ static void free_ldt_struct(struct ldt_struct *ldt)
paravirt_free_ldt(ldt->entries, ldt->size);
if (ldt->size * LDT_ENTRY_SIZE > PAGE_SIZE)
- vfree(ldt->entries);
+ vfree_atomic(ldt->entries);
else
free_page((unsigned long)ldt->entries);
kfree(ldt);
--
2.7.3
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