Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> +int kernel_error_event_iov(const struct iovec *iov, unsigned int nseg,
> + u32 groups)
> +{
> ...
> +
> + return netlink_broadcast(kerror_nl, skb, 0, ~0, GFP_ATOMIC);
This appears to be deadlocky when called from interrupt handlers.
netlink_broadcast() does read_lock(&nl_table_lock). But nl_table_lock is
not an irq-safe lock.
Possibly netlink_broadcast() can be made callable from hardirq context, but
it looks to be non trivial. The various error and delivery handlers need
to be reviewed, the kfree_skb() calls should be thought about, etc.
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