Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: IPC: sleeping function called ...

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:17:28 +0400 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> wrote:

> I'm getting tons of this, and X fails to start
> 
> CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
> CONFIG_SYSVIPC_SYSCTL=y
> # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
> # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set
> CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
> 
> BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rwsem.c:47
> in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> no locks held by X/5879.
>  [<c012bcb1>] down_write+0x15/0x50
>  [<c01b53af>] do_shmat+0x235/0x3a0
>  [<c0106be2>] sys_ipc+0x146/0x263
>  [<c0102892>] sysenter_past_esp+0xa7/0xb5
>  [<c0102856>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xb5
>  =======================

Here's a bug:

--- a/ipc/util.c~ipc-integrate-ipc_checkid-into-ipc_lock-fix-2
+++ a/ipc/util.c
@@ -691,7 +691,7 @@ struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_lock(struct ip
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
-
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return out;
 }
 
_

but it still doesn't fix it.

Nadia, please review Documentation/SubmitChecklist.  It contains stuff
which would have prevented this.