Re: [PATCH] firewire: core: obsolete usage of GFP_ATOMIC at building node tree

[John Ogness]

On 2023-06-04, Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The flag of GFP_ATOMIC is given to the call of kmalloc when building node
> tree, but the call is not atomic context. The call of
> fw_core_handle_bus_reset() and fw_core_remove_card() builds the tree,
> while they are done in specific workqueue or pci remove callback.

The comment is incorrect about not being in atomic
context. fw_core_handle_bus_reset() calls build_tree() with the
card->lock spinlock held. With 6.6-rc1 I see:

[   12.555784] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:306
[   12.555808] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 70, name: kworker/1:2
[   12.555814] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[   12.555820] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
[   12.555824] irq event stamp: 208
[   12.555828] hardirqs last  enabled at (207): [<c00000000111e414>] ._raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x44/0x80
[   12.555850] hardirqs last disabled at (208): [<c00000000110ff94>] .__schedule+0x854/0xfe0
[   12.555859] softirqs last  enabled at (188): [<c000000000f73504>] .addrconf_verify_rtnl+0x2c4/0xb70
[   12.555872] softirqs last disabled at (182): [<c000000000f732b0>] .addrconf_verify_rtnl+0x70/0xb70
[   12.555884] CPU: 1 PID: 70 Comm: kworker/1:2 Tainted: G S                 6.6.0-rc1 #1
[   12.555893] Hardware name: PowerMac7,2 PPC970 0x390202 PowerMac
[   12.555898] Workqueue: firewire_ohci .bus_reset_work [firewire_ohci]
[   12.555939] Call Trace:
[   12.555944] [c000000009677830] [c0000000010d83c0] .dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xd0 (unreliable)
[   12.555963] [c0000000096778b0] [c000000000140270] .__might_resched+0x320/0x340
[   12.555978] [c000000009677940] [c000000000497600] .__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x390/0x460
[   12.555993] [c000000009677a10] [c0000000003fe620] .__kmalloc+0x70/0x310
[   12.556007] [c000000009677ac0] [c0003d00004e2268] .fw_core_handle_bus_reset+0x2c8/0xba0 [firewire_core]
[   12.556060] [c000000009677c20] [c0003d0000491190] .bus_reset_work+0x330/0x9b0 [firewire_ohci]
[   12.556079] [c000000009677d10] [c00000000011d0d0] .process_one_work+0x280/0x6f0
[   12.556094] [c000000009677e10] [c00000000011d8a0] .worker_thread+0x360/0x500
[   12.556107] [c000000009677ef0] [c00000000012e3b4] .kthread+0x154/0x160
[   12.556120] [c000000009677f90] [c00000000000bfa8] .start_kernel_thread+0x10/0x14

John Ogness