netdev - Re: ipv6_addrconf: WARNING about suspicious RCU usage

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Date:   Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:37:53 +0200
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ipv6_addrconf: WARNING about suspicious RCU usage

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 12:57:01PM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> Since some time (didn't bisect it yet) I get the following warning.
> Is it a known issue?

[...]

> [86220.126999] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:420
> [86220.127041] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1003, name: kworker/0:2
> [86220.127082] 4 locks held by kworker/0:2/1003:
> [86220.127107]  #0:  ((wq_completion)"%s"("ipv6_addrconf")){+.+.}, at: [<00000000da8e9b73>] process_one_work+0x1de/0x680
> [86220.127179]  #1:  ((addr_chk_work).work){+.+.}, at: [<00000000da8e9b73>] process_one_work+0x1de/0x680
> [86220.127242]  #2:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<00000000b06d9510>] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x20
> [86220.127300]  #3:  (rcu_read_lock_bh){....}, at: [<00000000aef52299>] addrconf_verify_rtnl+0x1e/0x510 [ipv6]
> [86220.127414] CPU: 0 PID: 1003 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 4.15.0-rc7-next-20180110+ #7
> [86220.127463] Hardware name: ZOTAC ZBOX-CI321NANO/ZBOX-CI321NANO, BIOS B246P105 06/01/2015
> [86220.127528] Workqueue: ipv6_addrconf addrconf_verify_work [ipv6]
> [86220.127568] Call Trace:
> [86220.127591]  dump_stack+0x70/0x9e
> [86220.127616]  ___might_sleep+0x14d/0x240
> [86220.127644]  __might_sleep+0x45/0x80
> [86220.127672]  kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x53/0x250
> [86220.127717]  ? ipv6_add_addr+0xfe/0x6e0 [ipv6]
> [86220.127762]  ipv6_add_addr+0xfe/0x6e0 [ipv6]
> [86220.127807]  ipv6_create_tempaddr+0x24d/0x430 [ipv6]
> [86220.127854]  ? ipv6_create_tempaddr+0x24d/0x430 [ipv6]
> [86220.127903]  addrconf_verify_rtnl+0x339/0x510 [ipv6]
> [86220.127950]  ? addrconf_verify_rtnl+0x339/0x510 [ipv6]
> [86220.127998]  addrconf_verify_work+0xe/0x20 [ipv6]
> [86220.128032]  process_one_work+0x258/0x680
> [86220.128063]  worker_thread+0x35/0x3f0
> [86220.128091]  kthread+0x124/0x140
> [86220.128117]  ? process_one_work+0x680/0x680
> [86220.128146]  ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0x40/0x40
> [86220.128180]  ? umh_complete+0x40/0x40
> [86220.128207]  ? call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x12a/0x160
> [86220.128243]  ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x60

Can you please try attached patch (untested)?

View attachment "0001-ipv6-Do-not-sleep-in-RCU-read-side-critical-section.patch" of type "text/plain" (854 bytes)