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KVM: arm/arm64: Don't reschedule in unmap_stage2_range() 

Upstream commits fdfe7cbd58 ("KVM: Pass MMU notifier range flags to
kvm_unmap_hva_range()") and b5331379bc ("KVM: arm64: Only reschedule
if MMU_NOTIFIER_RANGE_BLOCKABLE is not set") fix a "sleeping from invalid
context" BUG caused by unmap_stage2_range() attempting to reschedule when
called on the OOM path.

Unfortunately, these patches rely on the MMU notifier callback being
passed knowledge about whether or not blocking is permitted, which was
introduced in 4.19. Rather than backport this considerable amount of
infrastructure just for KVM on arm, instead just remove the conditional
reschedule.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.14 only
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Will Deacon 2020-08-24 12:29:54 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent f114a36246
commit d476857315
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@ -307,12 +307,6 @@ static void unmap_stage2_range(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t start, u64 size)
next = stage2_pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
if (!stage2_pgd_none(*pgd))
unmap_stage2_puds(kvm, pgd, addr, next);
/*
* If the range is too large, release the kvm->mmu_lock
* to prevent starvation and lockup detector warnings.
*/
if (next != end)
cond_resched_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
} while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
}