This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ethernet: rocker: fix sleep in atomic context bug in neigh_timer_handler to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ethernet-rocker-fix-sleep-in-atomic-context-bug-in-n.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 5c573c205dbffbb338c3875696cffce1ee210d35 Author: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Aug 27 23:38:15 2022 +0800 ethernet: rocker: fix sleep in atomic context bug in neigh_timer_handler [ Upstream commit c0955bf957be4bead01fae1d791476260da7325d ] The function neigh_timer_handler() is a timer handler that runs in an atomic context. When used by rocker, neigh_timer_handler() calls "kzalloc(.., GFP_KERNEL)" that may sleep. As a result, the sleep in atomic context bug will happen. One of the processes is shown below: ofdpa_fib4_add() ... neigh_add_timer() (wait a timer) neigh_timer_handler() neigh_release() neigh_destroy() rocker_port_neigh_destroy() rocker_world_port_neigh_destroy() ofdpa_port_neigh_destroy() ofdpa_port_ipv4_neigh() kzalloc(sizeof(.., GFP_KERNEL) //may sleep This patch changes the gfp_t parameter of kzalloc() from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_ATOMIC in order to mitigate the bug. Fixes: 00fc0c51e35b ("rocker: Change world_ops API and implementation to be switchdev independant") Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_ofdpa.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_ofdpa.c index 0653b70723a34..5dad40257e12e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_ofdpa.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_ofdpa.c @@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ static int ofdpa_port_ipv4_neigh(struct ofdpa_port *ofdpa_port, bool removing; int err = 0; - entry = kzalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_KERNEL); + entry = kzalloc(sizeof(*entry), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!entry) return -ENOMEM;