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Commit 984cf355 authored by Ani Sinha's avatar Ani Sinha Committed by Paul E. McKenney
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sysrq: Fix warning in sysrq generated crash.

Commit 984d74a7 ("sysrq: rcu-ify __handle_sysrq") replaced
spin_lock_irqsave() calls with rcu_read_lock() calls in sysrq. Since
rcu_read_lock() does not disable preemption, faulthandler_disabled() in
__do_page_fault() in x86/fault.c returns false. When the code later calls
might_sleep() in the pagefault handler, we get the following warning:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ../arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1187
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4706, name: bash
Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff81484339>] printk+0x48/0x4a

To fix this, we release the RCU read lock before we crash.

Tested this patch on linux 3.18 by booting off one of our boards.

Fixes: 984d74a7

 ("sysrq: rcu-ify __handle_sysrq")

Signed-off-by: default avatarAni Sinha <ani@arista.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent 648c630c
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