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Commit 11ac5524 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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mm: fix page table unmap for stack guard page properly

We do in fact need to unmap the page table _before_ doing the whole
stack guard page logic, because if it is needed (mainly 32-bit x86 with
PAE and CONFIG_HIGHPTE, but other architectures may use it too) then it
will do a kmap_atomic/kunmap_atomic.

And those kmaps will create an atomic region that we cannot do
allocations in.  However, the whole stack expand code will need to do
anon_vma_prepare() and vma_lock_anon_vma() and they cannot do that in an
atomic region.

Now, a better model might actually be to do the anon_vma_prepare() when
_creating_ a VM_GROWSDOWN segment, and not have to worry about any of
this at page fault time.  But in the meantime, this is the
straightforward fix for the issue.

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16588

 for details.

Reported-by: default avatarWylda <wylda@volny.cz>
Reported-by: default avatarSedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarMike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org>
Reported-by: default avatarFrançois Valenduc <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be>
Tested-by: default avatarEd Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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