Re: 2.6.21-rc7: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/core/sock.c:1523

From: Satyam Sharma
Date: Wed May 16 2007 - 07:56:51 EST


Hi Marcel,

On 5/16/07, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Satayam,

> > > (later)
> > > I Googled a bit to see if this problem was faced elsewhere in the kernel
> > > too. Saw the following commit by Ingo Molnar
> > > (9883a13c72dbf8c518814b6091019643cdb34429):
> > > - lock_sock(sock->sk);
> > > + local_bh_disable();
> > > + bh_lock_sock_nested(sock->sk);
> > > rc = selinux_netlbl_socket_setsid(sock, sksec->sid);
> > > - release_sock(sock->sk);
> > > + bh_unlock_sock(sock->sk);
> > > + local_bh_enable();
> > > Is it _really_ *this* simple?
> > [...]
> > actually this *seems* to be proper solution also for our case, thanks for
> > pointing this out. I will think about it once again, do some more tests
> > with this locking scheme, and will let you know.
>
> Yes, I can almost confirm that this (open-coding of spin_lock_bh,
> effectively) is the proper solution (Rusty's unreliable guide to
> kernel-locking needs to be next to every developer's keyboard :-)
> I also came across this idiom in other places in the networking code
> so it seems to be pretty much the standard way. I wish I owned
> bluetooth hardware, could've tested this for you myself.

does this mean we should revert previous changes to the locking or only
apply this on top of it?

I've fixed a simple patch on top of 2.6.22-rc1 below.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff -ruNp a/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c 2007-05-16 17:31:06.000000000 +0530
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c 2007-05-16 17:33:36.000000000 +0530
@@ -665,7 +665,8 @@ static int hci_sock_dev_event(struct not
/* Detach sockets from device */
read_lock(&hci_sk_list.lock);
sk_for_each(sk, node, &hci_sk_list.head) {
- lock_sock(sk);
+ local_bh_disable();
+ bh_lock_sock_nested(sk);
if (hci_pi(sk)->hdev == hdev) {
hci_pi(sk)->hdev = NULL;
sk->sk_err = EPIPE;
@@ -674,6 +675,8 @@ static int hci_sock_dev_event(struct not

hci_dev_put(hdev);
}
+ bh_unlock_sock(sk);
+ local_bh_enable();
release_sock(sk);
}
read_unlock(&hci_sk_list.lock);
-
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