Re: next-20090220: XFS, IMA: BUG: sleeping function called frominvalid context at mm/slub.c:1613

[Mimi Zohar]

On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 12:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> But to fix this bug, xfs needs to stop calling inode_init_always()
> under read_lock().  Because inode_alloc_security() also can sleep (see
> new_inode_smack()).

Yes, even without IMA enabled, with SELINUX, PREEMPT, and DEBUG_PREEMPT
enabled, I'm seeing the problem:

Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slub.c:1613
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 3209, name: vi
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: Pid: 3209, comm: vi Tainted: P           2.6.29-rc6-next-20090224 #5
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: Call Trace:
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffff8103d2c1>] __might_sleep+0x120/0x122
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffff810c9a96>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x32/0xd1
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffff811563ca>] selinux_inode_alloc_security+0x39/0x90
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffff8114ef12>] security_inode_alloc+0x1c/0x1e
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffff810e15b3>] inode_init_always+0xc3/0x1dc
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffffa0031a34>] xfs_iget+0x14e/0x49e [xfs]
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffffa00462c2>] xfs_trans_iget+0xa6/0xd4 [xfs]
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffffa003463c>] xfs_ialloc+0x96/0x517 [xfs]
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffff8118b5e2>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x112
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffff8118b5e2>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x6c/0x112
Feb 24 17:37:52 iicu10 kernel: [<ffffffffa0046bb1>] xfs_dir_ialloc+0x73/0x26a [x

Mimi Zohar

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