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

From: Nadia Derbey
Date: Tue Sep 18 2007 - 06:25:36 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:17:28 +0400 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxx> 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;
}

Andrew,

Actually the rcu_read_lock is released in ipc_unlock(). So I think we shouldn't add an rcu_read_unlock() before leaving ipc_lock().
This is a part that has not changed since the ref code.

I'm looking also on my side.

Regards,
Nadia

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