On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 04:44:12PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Qiao Zhou <qiaoz...@asrmicro.com>
> 
> In current die(), the irq is disabled for __die() handle, not
> including the possible panic() handling. Since the log in __die()
> can take several hundreds ms, new irq might come and interrupt
> current die().
> 
> If the process calling die() holds some critical resource, and some
> other process scheduled later also needs it, then it would deadlock.
> The first panic will not be executed.
> 
> So here disable irq for the whole flow of die().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qiao Zhou <qiaoz...@asrmicro.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
> (cherry picked from commit 6f44a0bacb79a03972c83759711832b382b1b8ac)
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

also added to 4.9.y

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