On Monday, September 30, 2013 05:13:42 PM Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 01:37:53PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > > With that patch applied, the problem seems to have moved elsewhere.. > > > > > > BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 22s! [load_policy:8119] > > > > > > irq event stamp: 1590886 > > > hardirqs last enabled at (1590885): [<ffffffff8152c3dd>] > > > __slab_alloc.constprop.78+0x4c0/0x4d7 hardirqs last disabled at > > > (1590886): [<ffffffff8153e06a>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6a/0x80 > > > softirqs last enabled at (1590336): [<ffffffff810480d9>] > > > __do_softirq+0x169/0x200 softirqs last disabled at (1590331): > > > [<ffffffff8104839d>] irq_exit+0x11d/0x140 RIP: > > > 0010:[<ffffffff81223182>] [<ffffffff81223182>] > > > hashtab_insert+0x62/0x110 > > > > > Call Trace: > > > [<ffffffff812283b5>] policydb_read+0xc25/0x1200 > > > > ... > > > > > We're holding a bunch of locks here, so we can't just cond_resched. > > > Thoughts ? > > > > Sorry, what locks are we holding there? You ought to be able to do a > > cond_resched() anywhere during policydb_read() AFAIK; it is loading the > > policy into a new structure that isn't being accessed by anything else > > yet and the policy_rwlock is only held by security_load_policy after > > calling policydb_read and only to switch it into place as the active > > policydb. > > Hmm, I thought I had tried this already, and got a lot of spew, but it turns > out for some reason I had previously patched hashtab_search instead. > > I'll try running with this for a while.. Hi Dave, Just checking to see if this patch solved your problem ... ? > diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c > index 933e735..2cc4961 100644 > --- a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c > +++ b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c > @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ > #include <linux/kernel.h> > #include <linux/slab.h> > #include <linux/errno.h> > +#include <linux/sched.h> > #include "hashtab.h" > > struct hashtab *hashtab_create(u32 (*hash_value)(struct hashtab *h, const > void *key), @@ -40,6 +41,8 @@ int hashtab_insert(struct hashtab *h, void > *key, void *datum) u32 hvalue; > struct hashtab_node *prev, *cur, *newnode; > > + cond_resched(); > + > if (!h || h->nel == HASHTAB_MAX_NODES) > return -EINVAL; -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.