4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> commit 6669a692605547892a026445e460bf233958bd7f upstream. That race has been fixed and code cleaned up for a while now. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Cc: David Laight <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <[email protected]> Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/kernel/irq.c | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq.c @@ -219,18 +219,6 @@ __visible unsigned int __irq_entry do_IR /* high bit used in ret_from_ code */ unsigned vector = ~regs->orig_ax; - /* - * NB: Unlike exception entries, IRQ entries do not reliably - * handle context tracking in the low-level entry code. This is - * because syscall entries execute briefly with IRQs on before - * updating context tracking state, so we can take an IRQ from - * kernel mode with CONTEXT_USER. The low-level entry code only - * updates the context if we came from user mode, so we won't - * switch to CONTEXT_KERNEL. We'll fix that once the syscall - * code is cleaned up enough that we can cleanly defer enabling - * IRQs. - */ - entering_irq(); /* entering_irq() tells RCU that we're not quiescent. Check it. */
