2.6.28-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Andrey Borzenkov commit 7fe99c4e28ab54eada8aa456b417114e6ef21587 upstream orinoco: move kmalloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) outside spinlock in orinoco_ioctl_set_genie [ 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: [] rtnl_lock+0xf/0x20 [ 56.923703] #1: (&priv->lock){++..}, at: [] orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x52/0x130 [orinoco] [ 56.923782] irq event stamp: 910 [ 56.923788] hardirqs last enabled at (909): [] __kmalloc+0x7b/0x140 [ 56.923820] hardirqs last disabled at (910): [] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x19/0x80 [ 56.923847] softirqs last enabled at (880): [] __do_softirq+0xc4/0x110 [ 56.923865] softirqs last disabled at (871): [] 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] [] ? do_softirq+0x8e/0xe0 [ 56.923941] [] __might_sleep+0xd2/0x100 [ 56.923952] [] __kmalloc+0xd7/0x140 [ 56.923963] [] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x6a/0x80 [ 56.923981] [] ? orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x79/0x130 [orinoco] [ 56.923999] [] ? orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x52/0x130 [orinoco] [ 56.924017] [] orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x79/0x130 [orinoco] [ 56.924036] [] ? copy_from_user+0x35/0x130 [ 56.924061] [] ioctl_standard_call+0x196/0x380 [ 56.924085] [] ? __dev_get_by_name+0x85/0xb0 [ 56.924096] [] wext_handle_ioctl+0x14f/0x230 [ 56.924113] [] ? orinoco_ioctl_set_genie+0x0/0x130 [orinoco] [ 56.924132] [] dev_ioctl+0x495/0x570 [ 56.924155] [] ? sys_sendto+0xa5/0xd0 [ 56.924171] [] ? mark_held_locks+0x48/0x90 [ 56.924183] [] ? sock_ioctl+0x0/0x280 [ 56.924193] [] sock_ioctl+0xfd/0x280 [ 56.924203] [] ? sock_ioctl+0x0/0x280 [ 56.924235] [] vfs_ioctl+0x20/0x80 [ 56.924246] [] do_vfs_ioctl+0x72/0x570 [ 56.924257] [] ? sys_send+0x32/0x40 [ 56.924268] [] ? sys_socketcall+0x1d0/0x2a0 [ 56.924280] [] ? sysenter_exit+0xf/0x16 [ 56.924292] [] sys_ioctl+0x39/0x70 [ 56.924302] [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x31 Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c | 30 +++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c @@ -4938,32 +4938,29 @@ static int orinoco_ioctl_set_genie(struc struct orinoco_private *priv = netdev_priv(dev); u8 *buf; unsigned long flags; - int err = 0; if ((wrqu->data.length > MAX_WPA_IE_LEN) || (wrqu->data.length && (extra == NULL))) return -EINVAL; - if (orinoco_lock(priv, &flags) != 0) - return -EBUSY; - if (wrqu->data.length) { buf = kmalloc(wrqu->data.length, GFP_KERNEL); - if (buf == NULL) { - err = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } + if (buf == NULL) + return -ENOMEM; memcpy(buf, extra, wrqu->data.length); - kfree(priv->wpa_ie); - priv->wpa_ie = buf; - priv->wpa_ie_len = wrqu->data.length; - } else { - kfree(priv->wpa_ie); - priv->wpa_ie = NULL; - priv->wpa_ie_len = 0; + } else + buf = NULL; + + if (orinoco_lock(priv, &flags) != 0) { + kfree(buf); + return -EBUSY; } + kfree(priv->wpa_ie); + priv->wpa_ie = buf; + priv->wpa_ie_len = wrqu->data.length; + if (priv->wpa_ie) { /* Looks like wl_lkm wants to check the auth alg, and * somehow pass it to the firmware. @@ -4972,9 +4969,8 @@ static int orinoco_ioctl_set_genie(struc */ } -out: orinoco_unlock(priv, &flags); - return err; + return 0; } static int orinoco_ioctl_get_genie(struct net_device *dev, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/