Re: [PATCH 4.19 042/113] ocelot: Dont sleep in atomic context (irqs_disabled())

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri May 17 2019 - 04:18:50 EST


On Wed 2019-05-15 12:55:33, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> [ Upstream commit a8fd48b50deaa20808bbf0f6685f6f1acba6a64c ]
>
> Preemption disabled at:
> [<ffff000008cabd54>] dev_set_rx_mode+0x1c/0x38
> Call trace:
> [<ffff00000808a5c0>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3d0
> [<ffff00000808a9a4>] show_stack+0x14/0x20
> [<ffff000008e6c0c0>] dump_stack+0xac/0xe4
> [<ffff0000080fe76c>] ___might_sleep+0x164/0x238
> [<ffff0000080fe890>] __might_sleep+0x50/0x88
> [<ffff0000082261e4>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x17c/0x1d0
> [<ffff000000ea0ae8>] ocelot_set_rx_mode+0x108/0x188 [mscc_ocelot_common]
> [<ffff000008cabcf0>] __dev_set_rx_mode+0x58/0xa0
> [<ffff000008cabd5c>] dev_set_rx_mode+0x24/0x38
>
> Fixes: a556c76adc05 ("net: mscc: Add initial Ocelot switch support")

Is it right fix? Warning is gone, but now allocation is more likely to
fail, causing mc_add() to fail under memory pressure.

Pavel
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