vhost: use USER_DS in vhost_worker thread
authorJens Freimann <jfrei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:59:58 +0000 (00:59 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:10:56 +0000 (21:10 -0700)
On some architectures address spaces are set up in a way that this is
not necessary to work properly but on some others (like s390) it is.
Make sure we operate on the user address space to allow copy_xxx_user()
from the vhost_worker() thread by setting it explicitly before calling
use_mm() and revert it after unuse_mm().

Signed-off-by: Jens Freimann <jfrei@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/vhost/vhost.c

index 94dbd25caa303c44c4c972230fcb2752da619fc0..112156f68afb2117875087447d01222d74b33ba7 100644 (file)
@@ -191,7 +191,9 @@ static int vhost_worker(void *data)
        struct vhost_dev *dev = data;
        struct vhost_work *work = NULL;
        unsigned uninitialized_var(seq);
+       mm_segment_t oldfs = get_fs();
 
+       set_fs(USER_DS);
        use_mm(dev->mm);
 
        for (;;) {
@@ -229,6 +231,7 @@ static int vhost_worker(void *data)
 
        }
        unuse_mm(dev->mm);
+       set_fs(oldfs);
        return 0;
 }