Andreas Kling 16850423cf Kernel: Fix deadlock caused by page faults while holding disk cache lock ...

If the data passed to sys$write() is backed by a not-yet-paged-in inode
mapping, we could end up in a situation where we get a page fault when
trying to copy data from userspace.

If that page fault handler tried reading from an inode that someone else
had locked while waiting for the disk cache lock, we'd deadlock.

This patch fixes the issue by copying the userspace data into a local
buffer before acquiring the disk cache lock. This is not ideal since it
incurs an extra copy, and I'm sure we can think of a better solution
eventually.

This was a frequent cause of startup deadlocks on x86_64 for me. :^)

2021-12-26 00:42:51 +01:00

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