netlink question

netlink question

[Giacomo]

Dear netfilter list.

I would like to ask you about a strange issue.

I wrote a software that communicates with kernel space via the netlink socket.

A data structure of 212 byte (+16 byte of netlink header) used to
travel from user to kernel space and viceversa
without any problem.
Inside kernel space, socket buffer is allocated with alloc_skb
together with GFP_ATOMIC flag.

Since a couple of fields in the structure have changed

from __u32 source_ip  to __u32 source_ip[50];

and equivalently __u32 dest_ip became  __u32 dest_ip[50];

__u16 sport;   ->  __u16 sport[50];

__u16 dport;   ->  __u16 dport[50];

kernel began to crash, reporting, among other messages "scheduling
while atomic".

The data structure is now grown up to 788bytes (+16 netlink header).

I introduced in the functions responsible of netlink communication
some printks reporting the value of
in_atomic();

while with little data structures I always read in_atomic() == 0,  in
the same actions, but with the bigger
data structure, sometimes i read in_atomic() == 1


Is there a possible reason for this behaviour?

If yes, how should the behaviour be corrected?

Thanks in advance.

Giacomo, Italy.





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