[PATCH] x86: use probe_kernel_address in handle_BUG()
Avoid possible deadlock on a BUG() inside down_write(mmap_sem). The deadlock
can only occur if something has gone horridly wrong, because a fault here
shouldn't happen.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c b/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
index 21aa1cd..a13037f 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/unwind.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_EISA
#include <linux/ioport.h>
@@ -40,7 +41,6 @@
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
#include <asm/debugreg.h>
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@
if (eip < PAGE_OFFSET)
return;
- if (__get_user(ud2, (unsigned short __user *)eip))
+ if (probe_kernel_address((unsigned short __user *)eip, ud2))
return;
if (ud2 != 0x0b0f)
return;
@@ -422,7 +422,8 @@
char *file;
char c;
- if (__get_user(line, (unsigned short __user *)(eip + 2)))
+ if (probe_kernel_address((unsigned short __user *)(eip + 2),
+ line))
break;
if (__get_user(file, (char * __user *)(eip + 4)) ||
(unsigned long)file < PAGE_OFFSET || __get_user(c, file))