linux-kernel - Odd ENOMEM being returned in 3.8-rcX

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Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2013 16:57:42 -0500
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Odd ENOMEM being returned in 3.8-rcX

Hi All,

We've hit a weird error in Fedora using the 3.8-rcX kernels.  It seems
the mock tool is getting back ENOMEM when doing very simple things that
normally just work.  The 3.7 kernels on the same userspace work just
fine.  It seems just running 'mock init -v' is enough to cause the
failure.

Because this is the rawhide kernel, we have some debug options enabled.
This happens to trigger this error:

[   89.143660] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/nsproxy.c:217
[   89.143729] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 1329, name: mock
[   89.143776] no locks held by mock/1329.
[   89.143778] irq event stamp: 324562
[   89.143781] hardirqs last  enabled at (324561): [<ffffffff81163a8d>] get_page_from_freelist+0x51d/0x990
[   89.143791] hardirqs last disabled at (324562): [<ffffffff816daa9d>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x1d/0x60
[   89.143798] softirqs last  enabled at (323936): [<ffffffff81070438>] __do_softirq+0x168/0x3d0
[   89.143804] softirqs last disabled at (323931): [<ffffffff816e587c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[   89.143811] Pid: 1329, comm: mock Not tainted 3.8.0-0.rc6.git1.1.fc19.x86_64 #1
[   89.143814] Call Trace:
[   89.143823]  [<ffffffff8109f8d9>] __might_sleep+0x179/0x230
[   89.143828]  [<ffffffff81097887>] switch_task_namespaces+0x27/0x60
[   89.143833]  [<ffffffff810978d0>] exit_task_namespaces+0x10/0x20
[   89.143839]  [<ffffffff81064692>] copy_process.part.22+0xe32/0x1640
[   89.143844]  [<ffffffff81064f95>] do_fork+0xa5/0x450
[   89.143849]  [<ffffffff816db718>] ? retint_swapgs+0x13/0x1b
[   89.143854]  [<ffffffff810653c6>] sys_clone+0x16/0x20
[   89.143859]  [<ffffffff816e48b9>] stub_clone+0x69/0x90
[   89.143864]  [<ffffffff816e44d9>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

At first glance it seems copy_io is failing (possibly because
get_task_io_context fails), and then the above fallout is printed.  The
warning seems fairly valid, but I don't think that is the root of the
problem.

We've seen this as far back as Linux v3.8-rc2-116-g5f243b9 so far.  I
can still hit it with 3.8-rc6 as well.

I'm still trying to see if the ENOMEM hits without the debug options set,
and exactly which commit caused it.  I just wanted to see if anyone else
had seen odd python issues or other things failing with ENOMEM when they
shouldn't while I'm off debugging.

Thoughts/tips would be appreciated.

josh
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