From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/7][MAC80211]: Fix sleeping allocation under lock in mesh_path_node_copy.
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 19:51:51 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4821D017.9050606@openvz.org> (raw)
The mesh_path_node_copy() can be called like this:
mesh_path_add
`- write_lock(&pathtbl_resize_lock); /* ! */
`- mesh_table_grow
`- ->copy_node
`- mesh_path_node_copy
thus, the GFP_KERNEL is not suitable here.
The acceptable fix, I suppose, is make this allocation GPF_ATOMIC -
the mpath_node being allocated is 4 pointers, i.e. this allocation
is small enough to survive even under a moderate memory pressure.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
---
net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
index fe1ceee..1154398 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ static int mesh_path_node_copy(struct hlist_node *p, struct mesh_table *newtbl)
struct mpath_node *node, *new_node;
u32 hash_idx;
- new_node = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mpath_node), GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_node = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mpath_node), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (new_node == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
--
1.5.3.4
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