commit 57a05d83b16710aff30510c33768df7ab17e0b4a
author Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Sun Jun 12 22:03:16 2016 +0200
committer Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Thu Aug 04 00:17:58 2016 +0200
tree b8535f4cb6462564b41c8e8deedde84868991874
parent 5609a3d309836d047eb60275db69d82d47268283

um: Fix possible deadlock in sig_handler_common()

We are in atomic context and must not sleep.
Sleeping here is possible since malloc() maps
to kmalloc() with GFP_KERNEL.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b6024b21 ("um: extend fpstate to _xstate to support YMM registers")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>

arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c

diff --git a/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c b/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c
index 8acaf4e..a86d7cc 100644
--- a/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c
+++ b/arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <kern_util.h>
 #include <os.h>
 #include <sysdep/mcontext.h>
+#include <um_malloc.h>
 
 void (*sig_info[NSIG])(int, struct siginfo *, struct uml_pt_regs *) = {
 	[SIGTRAP]	= relay_signal,
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@
 	struct uml_pt_regs *r;
 	int save_errno = errno;
 
-	r = malloc(sizeof(struct uml_pt_regs));
+	r = uml_kmalloc(sizeof(struct uml_pt_regs), UM_GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!r)
 		panic("out of memory");
 
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@
 {
 	struct uml_pt_regs *regs;
 
-	regs = malloc(sizeof(struct uml_pt_regs));
+	regs = uml_kmalloc(sizeof(struct uml_pt_regs), UM_GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!regs)
 		panic("out of memory");