[PATCH] block/drbd: Fix a sleep-in-atomic bug in drbd_bcast_event

[Jia-Ju Bai]

The driver may sleep under a RCU lock, and the function call path is:
drbd_sync_handshake (acquire the RCU lock)
  drbd_asb_recover_1p
    drbd_khelper
      drbd_bcast_event
        genlmsg_new(GFP_NOIO) --> may sleep

To fix it, GFP_NOIO is replaced with GFP_ATOMIC.
This bug is found by my static analysis tool and my code review.


Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@xxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index a12f77e..713c965 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -4537,7 +4537,7 @@ void drbd_bcast_event(struct drbd_device *device, const struct sib_info *sib)
 	int err = -ENOMEM;
 
 	seq = atomic_inc_return(&drbd_genl_seq);
-	msg = genlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_NOIO);
+	msg = genlmsg_new(NLMSG_GOODSIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!msg)
 		goto failed;
 
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1.7.9.5