linux-kernel - Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/uaccess.h:LINE

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Date:   Mon, 6 Nov 2017 17:19:16 +0100
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
Cc:     syzbot 
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Subject: Re: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
 ./include/linux/uaccess.h:LINE

On 06.11.2017 17:14, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 06/11/2017 17:01, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 06.11.2017 16:10, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>>> Does it have to be stack allocated?
>>
>> We can't use kmalloc and friends in emulate.c. We would have to
>> introduce new emulator callbacks.
>>
>> a) for malloc and free. hmmm.
>> b) for carrying out the fxrstr/fixup.
>>
>> Paolo, what do you suggest?
> 
> You can use kmalloc.  Any userspace user of emulate.c would have to
> write a wrapper.  But I'm not sure it's useful... maybe the
> asm_safe+memcpy could be moved to a separate noinline function, so that
> segmented_read_std is invoked with a leaner stack.

That's basically what we had before 9d643f63128b, however without the
"noinline".


-- 

Thanks,

David / dhildenb