Hi Lakshmi, On Fri, 2019-12-27 at 22:23 +0800, kernel test robot wrote: > [ 333.455345] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:281 > [ 333.457243] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 12395, name: userfaultfd > [ 333.458888] CPU: 1 PID: 12395 Comm: userfaultfd Not tainted 5.5.0-rc1-00011-g11b771ffff8fc #1 > [ 333.461096] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014 > [ 333.463893] Call Trace: > [ 333.465287] <IRQ> > [ 333.466351] dump_stack+0x66/0x8b > [ 333.467346] ___might_sleep+0x102/0x120 > [ 333.468385] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x40 > [ 333.469421] ima_process_queued_keys+0x24/0x110 > [ 333.470529] ? ima_process_queued_keys+0x110/0x110 > [ 333.471656] call_timer_fn+0x2d/0x140 > [ 333.472707] run_timer_softirq+0x46f/0x4b0 > [ 333.473752] ? enqueue_hrtimer+0x39/0xa0 > [ 333.474780] __do_softirq+0xe3/0x2f8 > [ 333.475768] irq_exit+0xd5/0xe0 > [ 333.476738] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x74/0x140 > [ 333.477834] apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 > [ 333.478858] </IRQ> I think this is an instance where defining timer_expired as atomic and then testing it using atomic_dec_and_test() would help. Either the queued keys would be deleted in ima_timer_handler() or measured in ima_process_queued_keys(). Mimi
