linux-kernel - Re: next-20090220: XFS, IMA: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:1613

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Date:	Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:22:42 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com, zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: next-20090220: XFS, IMA: BUG: sleeping function called from
 invalid  context at mm/slub.c:1613

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:00:21 +0300
Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have applied the following patch from Mimi Zohar
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=123509665514552
> 
> That is why it is dirty.
> The kernel can not boot without it when IMA is enabled.
> 
> 
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:1613
> in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1514, name: mkdir
> 3 locks held by mkdir/1514:
>  #0:  (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#2/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff802d3460>]
> lookup_create+0x30/0xd0
>  #1:  (&(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff803ca77f>]
> xfs_ilock+0xdf/0x120
>  #2:  (&pag->pag_ici_lock){++++.+}, at: [<ffffffff803caed6>]
> xfs_iget+0x156/0x650
> Pid: 1514, comm: mkdir Not tainted 2.6.29-rc5-next-20090220-dirty #1
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff8026ad33>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x13/0x30
>  [<ffffffff80234fe5>] __might_sleep+0x105/0x140
>  [<ffffffff802c6191>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xd1/0x100
>  [<ffffffff8045fb29>] ima_iint_insert+0x49/0xf0
>  [<ffffffff8045fbed>] ima_inode_alloc+0x1d/0x30
>  [<ffffffff802dfa5f>] inode_init_always+0xaf/0x250
>  [<ffffffff803caf86>] xfs_iget+0x206/0x650
>  [<ffffffff803eb8e8>] xfs_trans_iget+0x208/0x250
>  [<ffffffff803ce571>] xfs_ialloc+0xc1/0x700
>  [<ffffffff803ec6f9>] xfs_dir_ialloc+0xa9/0x340
>  [<ffffffff8025e009>] ? down_write_nested+0x79/0x90
>  [<ffffffff803ef0c1>] xfs_create+0x3e1/0x690
>  [<ffffffff803fb813>] xfs_vn_mknod+0x63/0xf0
>  [<ffffffff803fb8ae>] xfs_vn_mkdir+0xe/0x10
>  [<ffffffff802d487c>] vfs_mkdir+0x8c/0xd0
>  [<ffffffff802d6a56>] sys_mkdirat+0x106/0x120
>  [<ffffffff8020bc0c>] ? sysret_check+0x27/0x62
>  [<ffffffff8026c79d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x17d/0x1e0
>  [<ffffffff802d6a83>] sys_mkdir+0x13/0x20
>  [<ffffffff8020bbdb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:1613

Please do not be tempted to switch ima_iint_insert() to use GFP_ATOMIC
to "fix" this.

Arguably, ima_iint_insert() should requite that the caller pass in the
gfp_t rather than assuming that GFP_KERNEL can be used.  But that is
not a suitable fix for this bug.

We may need to make that change to ima_iint_insert() anyway, as there's
a good chance that callers will require GFP_NOFS.


But to fix this bug, xfs needs to stop calling inode_init_always()
under read_lock().  Because inode_alloc_security() also can sleep (see
new_inode_smack()).

Also, ima_iint_insert() does a radix_tree_lookup() without holding
ima_iint_lock, which appears to be a bug.

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