2.6.26-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: FUJITA Tomonori This is the backport of the upstream commit 50bed2e2862a8f3a4f7d683d0d27292e71ef18b9 The callers of sg_copy_buffer must disable interrupts before calling it (since it uses kmap_atomic). Some callers use it on interrupt-disabled code but some need to take the trouble to disable interrupts just for this. No wonder they forget about it and we hit a bug like: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11529 James said that it might be better to disable interrupts inside the function rather than risk the callers getting it wrong. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- lib/scatterlist.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/lib/scatterlist.c +++ b/lib/scatterlist.c @@ -312,8 +312,9 @@ static size_t sg_copy_buffer(struct scat struct scatterlist *sg; size_t buf_off = 0; int i; + unsigned long flags; - WARN_ON(!irqs_disabled()); + local_irq_save(flags); for_each_sg(sgl, sg, nents, i) { struct page *page; @@ -358,6 +359,8 @@ static size_t sg_copy_buffer(struct scat break; } + local_irq_restore(flags); + return buf_off; } -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/