Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in ubifs_read_nnode

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 05.06.2017 um 10:25 schrieb Richard Weinberger:
> Jia-Ju Bai,
> 
> Am 05.06.2017 um 05:38 schrieb Jia-Ju Bai:
>> The driver may sleep under a spin lock, and the function call path is:
>> ubifs_change_lp (acquire the lock by spin_lock)
>>   change_category
>>     ubifs_remove_from_cat
>>       remove_from_lpt_heap
>>         dbg_check_heap
>>           ubifs_lpt_lookup
>>             ubifs_read_nnode
>>               kzalloc(GFP_NOFS) --> may sleep
>>
>> To fix it, "GFP_NOFS" is replaced with "GFP_ATOMIC".
> 
> So, this happens only when dbg_check_heap() is activated, right?

Why do we call change_category() anyway with c->space_lock held?

Thanks,
//richard