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-rw-r--r--include/linux/rcupdate.h4
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c24
-rw-r--r--tools/objtool/check.c22
3 files changed, 30 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index e679b175b411..65163aa0bb04 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -652,9 +652,7 @@ static inline void rcu_read_lock(void)
* Unfortunately, this function acquires the scheduler's runqueue and
* priority-inheritance spinlocks. This means that deadlock could result
* if the caller of rcu_read_unlock() already holds one of these locks or
- * any lock that is ever acquired while holding them; or any lock which
- * can be taken from interrupt context because rcu_boost()->rt_mutex_lock()
- * does not disable irqs while taking ->wait_lock.
+ * any lock that is ever acquired while holding them.
*
* That said, RCU readers are never priority boosted unless they were
* preempted. Therefore, one way to avoid deadlock is to make sure
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 0f865d67415d..8d8a940422a8 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1244,19 +1244,12 @@ struct sighand_struct *__lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk,
{
struct sighand_struct *sighand;
+ rcu_read_lock();
for (;;) {
- /*
- * Disable interrupts early to avoid deadlocks.
- * See rcu_read_unlock() comment header for details.
- */
- local_irq_save(*flags);
- rcu_read_lock();
sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand);
- if (unlikely(sighand == NULL)) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
- local_irq_restore(*flags);
+ if (unlikely(sighand == NULL))
break;
- }
+
/*
* This sighand can be already freed and even reused, but
* we rely on SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU and sighand_ctor() which
@@ -1268,15 +1261,12 @@ struct sighand_struct *__lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk,
* __exit_signal(). In the latter case the next iteration
* must see ->sighand == NULL.
*/
- spin_lock(&sighand->siglock);
- if (likely(sighand == tsk->sighand)) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&sighand->siglock, *flags);
+ if (likely(sighand == tsk->sighand))
break;
- }
- spin_unlock(&sighand->siglock);
- rcu_read_unlock();
- local_irq_restore(*flags);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sighand->siglock, *flags);
}
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return sighand;
}
diff --git a/tools/objtool/check.c b/tools/objtool/check.c
index 3a31b238f885..38047c6aa575 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/check.c
@@ -543,6 +543,28 @@ static int add_jump_destinations(struct objtool_file *file)
dest_off);
return -1;
}
+
+ /*
+ * For GCC 8+, create parent/child links for any cold
+ * subfunctions. This is _mostly_ redundant with a similar
+ * initialization in read_symbols().
+ *
+ * If a function has aliases, we want the *first* such function
+ * in the symbol table to be the subfunction's parent. In that
+ * case we overwrite the initialization done in read_symbols().
+ *
+ * However this code can't completely replace the
+ * read_symbols() code because this doesn't detect the case
+ * where the parent function's only reference to a subfunction
+ * is through a switch table.
+ */
+ if (insn->func && insn->jump_dest->func &&
+ insn->func != insn->jump_dest->func &&
+ !strstr(insn->func->name, ".cold.") &&
+ strstr(insn->jump_dest->func->name, ".cold.")) {
+ insn->func->cfunc = insn->jump_dest->func;
+ insn->jump_dest->func->pfunc = insn->func;
+ }
}
return 0;