4.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Joerg Roedel <jroe...@suse.de>

[ Upstream commit 6863ea0cda8725072522cd78bda332d9a0b73150 ]

It is perfectly okay to take page-faults, especially on the
vmalloc area while executing an NMI handler. Remove the
warning.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroe...@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: David H. Gutteridge <dhgutteri...@sympatico.ca>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: linux...@kvack.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkos...@suse.cz>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com>
Cc: David Laight <david.lai...@aculab.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <edu...@amazon.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Cc: aligu...@amazon.com
Cc: daniel.gr...@iaik.tugraz.at
Cc: hu...@google.com
Cc: keesc...@google.com
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <ll...@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pa...@ucw.cz>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org>
Cc: j...@8bytes.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532533683-5988-2-git-send-email-j...@8bytes.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.le...@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -317,8 +317,6 @@ static noinline int vmalloc_fault(unsign
        if (!(address >= VMALLOC_START && address < VMALLOC_END))
                return -1;
 
-       WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi());
-
        /*
         * Synchronize this task's top level page-table
         * with the 'reference' page table.


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