Re: [PATCH v2] net: ipv6: fib: don't sleep inside atomic lock

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Aug 22 2014 - 13:55:42 EST


From: Benjamin Block <bebl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:37:48 +0200

> The function fib6_commit_metrics() allocates a piece of memory in mode
> GFP_KERNEL while holding an atomic lock from higher up in the stack, in
> the function __ip6_ins_rt(). This produces the following BUG:
...
> Fixing this by replacing the mode GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Block <bebl@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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