Merge branch 'master' into for-linus

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/stab.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/stab.c
index 98cd1dc2ae7..ab5fb48b3e9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/stab.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/stab.c
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ void switch_stab(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	struct stab_entry *stab = (struct stab_entry *) get_paca()->stab_addr;
 	struct stab_entry *ste;
-	unsigned long offset = __get_cpu_var(stab_cache_ptr);
+	unsigned long offset;
 	unsigned long pc = KSTK_EIP(tsk);
 	unsigned long stack = KSTK_ESP(tsk);
 	unsigned long unmapped_base;
@@ -172,6 +172,15 @@ void switch_stab(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
 	/* Force previous translations to complete. DRENG */
 	asm volatile("isync" : : : "memory");
 
+	/*
+	 * We need interrupts hard-disabled here, not just soft-disabled,
+	 * so that a PMU interrupt can't occur, which might try to access
+	 * user memory (to get a stack trace) and possible cause an STAB miss
+	 * which would update the stab_cache/stab_cache_ptr per-cpu variables.
+	 */
+	hard_irq_disable();
+
+	offset = __get_cpu_var(stab_cache_ptr);
 	if (offset <= NR_STAB_CACHE_ENTRIES) {
 		int i;