Re: packet_sendmsg_spkt sleeping from invalid context

[Eric Dumazet]

Le 14/12/2009 21:52, Frederic Weisbecker a écrit :
> 
> I also wonder. Are you using PREEMPT_RCU ?

Not at all :)

But yes, this is illegal to do the memcpy_fromiovec() in rcu_read_lock() context.

> That may explain why you haven't seen this issue because
> might_sleep() doesn't see you are in a rcu read locked
> section as preemption is not disabled, but it is illegal to
> voluntarily sleep in such area (although it's fine with
> preempt rcu) as doing so with non-prempt RCU config would barf.
> 
> I'm trying a patch to handle that.

As you want, I also have a patch testing right now :)
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