From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vbabka@suse.cz,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, urezki@gmail.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
Martin Zaharinov <micron10@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mm] mm: fix BUG with kvzalloc+GFP_ATOMIC
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 16:20:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220926142013.GF12777@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YzGxuZ8jQ2sO4ZML@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
> On Mon 26-09-22 15:08:08, Florian Westphal wrote:
> [...]
> > To the best of my knowledge there are users of this interface that
> > invoke it with rcu read lock held, and since those always nest, the
> > rcu_read_unlock() won't move us to GFP_KERNEL territory.
>
> Fiar point. I can see a comment above rhashtable_insert_fast which is
> supposed to be used by drivers and explicitly documented to be
> compatible with an atomic context. So the above is clearly a no-go
>
> In that case I would propose to go with the patch going
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/YzFplwSxwwsLpzzX@dhcp22.suse.cz direction.
FWIW that patch works for me. Will you do a formal patch submission?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-26 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-23 10:38 [PATCH mm] mm: fix BUG with kvzalloc+GFP_ATOMIC Florian Westphal
2022-09-23 13:29 ` Michal Hocko
2022-09-23 13:35 ` Florian Westphal
2022-09-23 14:43 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-09-23 14:54 ` Florian Westphal
2022-09-23 15:10 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2022-09-26 15:03 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-09-26 15:28 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2022-09-26 7:49 ` Michal Hocko
2022-09-26 7:56 ` Florian Westphal
2022-09-26 8:57 ` Michal Hocko
2022-09-26 9:30 ` Michal Hocko
2022-09-26 10:08 ` Florian Westphal
2022-09-26 12:02 ` Michal Hocko
2022-09-26 13:08 ` Florian Westphal
2022-09-26 13:38 ` Florian Westphal
2022-09-26 14:05 ` Michal Hocko
2022-09-26 14:20 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2022-09-26 14:32 ` Michal Hocko
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