RE: [PATCH V2] rxe: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in post_one_send

[Amrani, Ram]

> The driver may sleep under a spin lock, and the function call path is:
> post_one_send (acquire the lock by spin_lock_irqsave)
>   init_send_wqe
>     copy_from_user --> may sleep
> 
> To fix it, the lock is released before copy_from_user, and the lock is
> acquired again after this function. The parameter "flags" is used to
> restore and save the irq status.
> Thank Leon for good advice.
> 

...

>  	init_send_wr(qp, &wqe->wr, ibwr);
> @@ -742,7 +742,12 @@ static int init_send_wqe(struct rxe_qp *qp, struct ib_send_wr *ibwr,
>  		for (i = 0; i < num_sge; i++, sge++) {
>  			if (qp->is_user && copy_from_user(p, (__user void *)
>  					    (uintptr_t)sge->addr, sge->length))
> -				return -EFAULT;
> +				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&qp->sq.sq_lock, *flags);
> +				err = copy_from_user(p, (__user void *)
> +					    (uintptr_t)sge->addr, sge->length);
> +				spin_lock_irqsave(&qp->sq.sq_lock, *flags);
> +				if (qp->is_user && err)
> +					return -EFAULT;
> 
>  			else if (!qp->is_user)
>  				memcpy(p, (void *)(uintptr_t)sge->addr,

This isn't my area of expertise. Still something seems weird.
You are still calling 'copy_from_user' unprotected in the 'if'.
Also, did you mean to use curly brackets on the indented part after the first if?!

Ram