tree 94b76fe47a5d7a65641ce6f60f789f3b095965b7
parent f991519c197534811046e5e47389b6fafcdf1e48
author Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 1175516731 +0200
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1175533645 -0700

[PATCH] i386: fix file_read_actor() and pipe_read() for original i386 systems

The __copy_to_user_inatomic() calls in file_read_actor() and pipe_read()
are broken on original i386 machines, where WP-works-ok == false, as
__copy_to_user_inatomic() on such systems calls functions which might
sleep and/or contain cond_resched() calls inside of a kmap_atomic()
region.

The original check for WP-works-ok was in access_ok(), but got moved
during the 2.5 series to fix a race vs. swap.

Return the number of bytes to copy in the case where we are in an atomic
region, so the non atomic code pathes in file_read_actor() and
pipe_read() are taken.

This could be optimized to avoid the kmap_atomicby moving the check for
WP-works-ok into fault_in_pages_writeable(), but this is more intrusive
and can be done later.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>