Re: [PATCH V3] rxe: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in post_one_send
From: Moni Shoua
Date: Mon Jun 05 2017 - 04:30:32 EST
> - if (qp->is_user && copy_from_user(p, (__user void *)
> - (uintptr_t)sge->addr, sge->length))
> + 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;
qp-_is_user is always false in this function (flow starts from
rxe_post_send_kernel) so this line is a dead code
In fact, this patch seems to add a serious bug when it uses
copy_from_user() from a non user pointer.
Do you agree?