netdev - Re: [Bug 42754] New: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/memory.c:3924

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Date:	Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:38:02 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, baryluk@....if.uj.edu.pl,
	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 42754] New: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
 context at mm/memory.c:3924

On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 19:13 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > [ 1203.050623] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> > mm/memory.c:3924
> > [ 1203.054259] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4446, name:
> > NetworkManager
> > [ 1203.057932] INFO: lockdep is turned off.

This here should have been a listing of all held locks when this
happened, however due to an earlier error lockdep has already been
disabled (means it stops tracking state and printing anything would be
printing nonsense).

This suggests this isn't the first error hit.

> > [ 1203.061685] Pid: 4446, comm: NetworkManager Tainted: G        W  O
> > 3.3.0-rc2-t43-devel-smp-00172-g23783f8 #13
> > [ 1203.065606] Call Trace:
> > [ 1203.069502]  [<c107e182>] __might_sleep+0x122/0x1d0
> > [ 1203.073506]  [<c1140b4e>] might_fault+0x2e/0xb0
> > [ 1203.077501]  [<c131c67b>] copy_to_user+0x3b/0x60
> > [ 1203.081561]  [<c158a102>] put_cmsg+0x52/0xd0
> > [ 1203.085624]  [<c15bc7d7>] netlink_recvmsg+0x287/0x340
> > [ 1203.089740]  [<c1579b43>] sock_recvmsg+0xd3/0x110
> > [ 1203.093902]  [<c1140b74>] ? might_fault+0x54/0xb0
> > [ 1203.098093]  [<c158834c>] ? verify_iovec+0x4c/0xc0
> > [ 1203.102336]  [<c1579a70>] ? sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x100/0x100
> > [ 1203.106611]  [<c157a994>] __sys_recvmsg+0x114/0x1e0
> > [ 1203.110942]  [<c1081dc7>] ? finish_task_switch+0x77/0x200
> > [ 1203.115315]  [<c11784b5>] ? fget_light+0xc5/0x410
> > [ 1203.119722]  [<c1081dc7>] ? finish_task_switch+0x77/0x200
> > [ 1203.124167]  [<c11784c9>] ? fget_light+0xd9/0x410
> > [ 1203.128618]  [<c1178435>] ? fget_light+0x45/0x410
> > [ 1203.133102]  [<c157c659>] sys_recvmsg+0x39/0x60
> > [ 1203.137590]  [<c157cbb3>] sys_socketcall+0x2e3/0x330
> > [ 1203.142147]  [<c17cf58d>] ? sysenter_exit+0xf/0x1a
> > [ 1203.146707]  [<c131be78>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
> > [ 1203.151358]  [<c17cf558>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38

> Peter, is there any way in which lockdep can help us find the culprit
> in the second case? 

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