4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ [ Upstream commit d29e89e34952a9ad02c77109c71a80043544296e ] So far there was the possibility that we called genlmsg_new(GFP_NOIO)/mutex_lock() while holding an rcu_read_lock(). This included cases like: drbd_sync_handshake (acquire the RCU lock) drbd_asb_recover_1p drbd_khelper drbd_bcast_event genlmsg_new(GFP_NOIO) --> may sleep drbd_sync_handshake (acquire the RCU lock) drbd_asb_recover_1p drbd_khelper notify_helper genlmsg_new(GFP_NOIO) --> may sleep drbd_sync_handshake (acquire the RCU lock) drbd_asb_recover_1p drbd_khelper notify_helper mutex_lock --> may sleep While using GFP_ATOMIC whould have been possible in the first two cases, the real fix is to narrow the rcu_read_lock. Reported-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Roland Kammerer <roland.kammerer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c index 61c392752fe4..1b9822f264d2 100644 --- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c +++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_receiver.c @@ -3364,7 +3364,7 @@ static enum drbd_conns drbd_sync_handshake(struct drbd_peer_device *peer_device, enum drbd_conns rv = C_MASK; enum drbd_disk_state mydisk; struct net_conf *nc; - int hg, rule_nr, rr_conflict, tentative; + int hg, rule_nr, rr_conflict, tentative, always_asbp; mydisk = device->state.disk; if (mydisk == D_NEGOTIATING) @@ -3415,8 +3415,12 @@ static enum drbd_conns drbd_sync_handshake(struct drbd_peer_device *peer_device, rcu_read_lock(); nc = rcu_dereference(peer_device->connection->net_conf); + always_asbp = nc->always_asbp; + rr_conflict = nc->rr_conflict; + tentative = nc->tentative; + rcu_read_unlock(); - if (hg == 100 || (hg == -100 && nc->always_asbp)) { + if (hg == 100 || (hg == -100 && always_asbp)) { int pcount = (device->state.role == R_PRIMARY) + (peer_role == R_PRIMARY); int forced = (hg == -100); @@ -3455,9 +3459,6 @@ static enum drbd_conns drbd_sync_handshake(struct drbd_peer_device *peer_device, "Sync from %s node\n", (hg < 0) ? "peer" : "this"); } - rr_conflict = nc->rr_conflict; - tentative = nc->tentative; - rcu_read_unlock(); if (hg == -100) { /* FIXME this log message is not correct if we end up here -- 2.19.1