Subject: [PATCH] [2.6.29-rc2] orinoco: use GFP_ATOMIC in kmalloc in
orinoco_ioctl_set_genie
From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxx>
kmalloc is called with interrupt disabled and may not sleep. This
fixes this BUG:
[ 56.923623] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
/home/bor/src/linux-git/mm/slub.c:1599
[ 56.923644] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 3031, name:
wpa_supplicant
[ 56.923656] 2 locks held by wpa_supplicant/3031:
[ 56.923662] #0: (rtnl_mutex){--..}, at: [<c02abd1f>] rtnl_lock+0xf/0x20
[ 56.923703] #1: (&priv->lock){++..}, at: [<dfc840c2>]
orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x52/0x130 [orinoco]
[ 56.923782] irq event stamp: 910
[ 56.923788] hardirqs last enabled at (909): [<c01957db>]
__kmalloc+0x7b/0x140
[ 56.923820] hardirqs last disabled at (910): [<c0309419>]
_spin_lock_irqsave+0x19/0x80
[ 56.923847] softirqs last enabled at (880): [<c0124f54>]
__do_softirq+0xc4/0x110
[ 56.923865] softirqs last disabled at (871): [<c01049ae>]
do_softirq+0x8e/0xe0
[ 56.923895] Pid: 3031, comm: wpa_supplicant Not tainted 2.6.29-rc2-1avb
#1
[ 56.923905] Call Trace:
[ 56.923919] [<c01049ae>] ? do_softirq+0x8e/0xe0
[ 56.923941] [<c011ad12>] __might_sleep+0xd2/0x100
[ 56.923952] [<c0195837>] __kmalloc+0xd7/0x140
[ 56.923963] [<c030946a>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x6a/0x80
[ 56.923981] [<dfc840e9>] ? orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x79/0x130 [orinoco]
[ 56.923999] [<dfc840c2>] ? orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x52/0x130 [orinoco]
[ 56.924017] [<dfc840e9>] orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x79/0x130 [orinoco]
[ 56.924036] [<c0209325>] ? copy_from_user+0x35/0x130
[ 56.924061] [<c02ffd96>] ioctl_standard_call+0x196/0x380
[ 56.924085] [<c029f945>] ? __dev_get_by_name+0x85/0xb0
[ 56.924096] [<c02ff88f>] wext_handle_ioctl+0x14f/0x230
[ 56.924113] [<dfc84070>] ? orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x0/0x130 [orinoco]
[ 56.924132] [<c02a3da5>] dev_ioctl+0x495/0x570
[ 56.924155] [<c0293e05>] ? sys_sendto+0xa5/0xd0
[ 56.924171] [<c0142fe8>] ? mark_held_locks+0x48/0x90
[ 56.924183] [<c0292880>] ? sock_ioctl+0x0/0x280
[ 56.924193] [<c029297d>] sock_ioctl+0xfd/0x280
[ 56.924203] [<c0292880>] ? sock_ioctl+0x0/0x280
[ 56.924235] [<c01a51d0>] vfs_ioctl+0x20/0x80
[ 56.924246] [<c01a53e2>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x72/0x570
[ 56.924257] [<c0293e62>] ? sys_send+0x32/0x40
[ 56.924268] [<c02947c0>] ? sys_socketcall+0x1d0/0x2a0
[ 56.924280] [<c010339f>] ? sysenter_exit+0xf/0x16
[ 56.924292] [<c01a5919>] sys_ioctl+0x39/0x70
[ 56.924302] [<c0103371>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31
Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxx>
---
Why did not we see it before?
drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.c
index c3bb85e..779ab10 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco.c
@@ -5079,7 +5079,7 @@ static int orinoco_ioctl_set_genie(struct net_device
*dev,
return -EBUSY;
if (wrqu->data.length) {
- buf = kmalloc(wrqu->data.length, GFP_KERNEL);
+ buf = kmalloc(wrqu->data.length, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (buf == NULL) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
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