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

From: Jia-Ju Bai
Date: Mon Jun 05 2017 - 04:42:00 EST


On 06/05/2017 04:25 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
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?

Thanks,
//richard
Yes, I think so.

Thanks,
Jia-Ju Bai