netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: tipc: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in tipc_msg

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Message-Id: <20170610.182141.2167495708271774980.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2017 18:21:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     baijiaju1990@....com
Cc:     jon.maloy@...csson.com, ying.xue@...driver.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tipc: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in
 tipc_msg_reverse

From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@....com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 17:03:35 +0800

> The kernel may sleep under a rcu read lock in tipc_msg_reverse, and the
> function call path is:
> tipc_l2_rcv_msg (acquire the lock by rcu_read_lock)
>   tipc_rcv
>     tipc_sk_rcv
>       tipc_msg_reverse
>         pskb_expand_head(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep
> tipc_node_broadcast
>   tipc_node_xmit_skb
>     tipc_node_xmit
>       tipc_sk_rcv
>         tipc_msg_reverse
>           pskb_expand_head(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep
> 
> To fix it, "GFP_KERNEL" is replaced with "GFP_ATOMIC".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@....com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.