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um: Skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test
authorRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:53:51 +0000 (13:53 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:18:58 +0000 (08:18 -0800)
commitb388e0d11005381b79a8d296e53a376fbf17a577
treea98b0439650297dc0ceb78fd1699f20433512e31
parentd896e223d601ce7abec4783aec3fb563ec9ad4e3
um: Skip futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() test

commit f911d731054ab3d82ee72a16b889e17ca3a2332a upstream.

futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() does not work on UML because
it triggers a copy_from_user() in kernel context.
On UML copy_from_user() can only be used if the kernel was called
by a real user space process such that UML can use ptrace()
to fetch the value.

Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Tested-by: Daniel Walter <d.walter@0x90.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/um/Kconfig.common