commit 603e772992 upstream.
qib_user_sdma_queue_pkts() gets called with mmap_sem held for
writing. Except for get_user_pages() deep down in
qib_user_sdma_pin_pages() we don't seem to need mmap_sem at all. Even
more interestingly the function qib_user_sdma_queue_pkts() (and also
qib_user_sdma_coalesce() called somewhat later) call copy_from_user()
which can hit a page fault and we deadlock on trying to get mmap_sem
when handling that fault.
So just make qib_user_sdma_pin_pages() use get_user_pages_fast() and
leave mmap_sem locking for mm.
This deadlock has actually been observed in the wild when the node
is under memory pressure.
Reviewed-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
[Backported to 3.4: (Thank to Ben Hutchings)
- Adjust context
- Adjust indentation and nr_pages argument in qib_user_sdma_pin_pages()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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