[GIT pull] core fixes for 3.7

[Thomas Gleixner]

Linus,

please pull the latest core-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git core-urgent-for-linus

* One line fix, which plugs a rcu_user leak.

Thanks,

	tglx

------------------>
Frederic Weisbecker (1):
      rcu: Fix unrecovered RCU user mode in syscall_trace_leave()


 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index b00b33a..eff5b8c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1511,6 +1511,13 @@ void syscall_trace_leave(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	bool step;
 
+	/*
+	 * We may come here right after calling schedule_user()
+	 * or do_notify_resume(), in which case we can be in RCU
+	 * user mode.
+	 */
+	rcu_user_exit();
+
 	audit_syscall_exit(regs);
 
 	if (unlikely(test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT)))
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