The following BUG has been reported while running ipsec tests. BUG: scheduling while atomic: irq/78-eno3-rx-/12023/0x00000002 Modules linked in: ipcomp xfrm_ipcomp ... Preemption disabled at: [<ffffffffc0b29730>] ipcomp_input+0xd0/0x9a0 [xfrm_ipcomp] CPU: 1 PID: 12023 Comm: irq/78-eno3-rx- Kdump: loaded Not tainted [...] #1 Hardware name: [...] Call Trace: dump_stack+0x5c/0x80 ? ipcomp_input+0xd0/0x9a0 [xfrm_ipcomp] __schedule_bug.cold.81+0x44/0x51 __schedule+0x5bf/0x6a0 schedule+0x39/0xd0 rt_spin_lock_slowlock_locked+0x10e/0x2b0 rt_spin_lock_slowlock+0x50/0x80 get_page_from_freelist+0x609/0x1560 ? zlib_updatewindow+0x5a/0xd0 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd9/0x280 ipcomp_input+0x299/0x9a0 [xfrm_ipcomp] xfrm_input+0x5e3/0x960 xfrm4_ipcomp_rcv+0x34/0x50 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x22d/0x250 ip_local_deliver+0x6d/0x110 ? ip_rcv_finish+0xac/0x480 ip_rcv+0x28e/0x3f9 ? packet_rcv+0x43/0x4c0 __netif_receive_skb_core+0xb7c/0xd10 ? inet_gro_receive+0x8e/0x2f0 netif_receive_skb_internal+0x4a/0x160 napi_gro_receive+0xee/0x110 tg3_rx+0x2a8/0x810 [tg3] tg3_poll_work+0x3b3/0x830 [tg3] tg3_poll_msix+0x3b/0x170 [tg3] net_rx_action+0x1ff/0x470 ? __switch_to_asm+0x41/0x70 do_current_softirqs+0x223/0x3e0 ? irq_thread_check_affinity+0x20/0x20 __local_bh_enable+0x51/0x60 irq_forced_thread_fn+0x5e/0x80 ? irq_finalize_oneshot.part.45+0xf0/0xf0 irq_thread+0x13d/0x1a0 ? wake_threads_waitq+0x30/0x30 kthread+0x112/0x130 ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x70/0x70 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 The problem resides in the fact that get_cpu() called from ipcomp_input() disables preemption, and that triggers the scheduling while atomic BUG further down the callpath chain of get_page_from_freelist(), i.e., ipcomp_input ipcomp_decompress <-- get_cpu() alloc_page(GFP_ATOMIC) alloc_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, 0) alloc_pages_current __alloc_pages_nodemask get_page_from_freelist (try_this_zone:) rmqueue rmqueue_pcplist __rmqueue_pcplist rmqueue_bulk <-- spin_lock(&zone->lock) - BUG Fix this by using {get,put}_cpu_light() in ipcomp_decompress(). Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Hi, This has been found on a 4.19.x-rt kernel, but 5.x-rt(s) are affected as well. Best, Juri --- net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c index a00ec715aa46..39d9e663384f 100644 --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_ipcomp.c @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static int ipcomp_decompress(struct xfrm_state *x, struct sk_buff *skb) const int plen = skb->len; int dlen = IPCOMP_SCRATCH_SIZE; const u8 *start = skb->data; - const int cpu = get_cpu(); + const int cpu = get_cpu_light(); u8 *scratch = *per_cpu_ptr(ipcomp_scratches, cpu); struct crypto_comp *tfm = *per_cpu_ptr(ipcd->tfms, cpu); int err = crypto_comp_decompress(tfm, start, plen, scratch, &dlen); @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static int ipcomp_decompress(struct xfrm_state *x, struct sk_buff *skb) err = 0; out: - put_cpu(); + put_cpu_light(); return err; } -- 2.17.2