Re: [net] 5478fcd0f4: BUG:sleeping_function_called_from_invalid_context_at_include/linux/sched/mm.h

[Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>]

Quoting Matthew Wilcox (2021-03-22 10:05:36)
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 09:55:50AM +0100, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> > I only had a quick look at this, but I think the issue should be fixed
> > with:
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
> > index e16d54aabd4c..3ae3c20eb64c 100644
> > --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
> > +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
> > @@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ static ssize_t xps_queue_show(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int index,
> >         nr_ids = dev_maps ? dev_maps->nr_ids :
> >                  (type == XPS_CPUS ? nr_cpu_ids : dev->num_rx_queues);
> >  
> > -       mask = bitmap_zalloc(nr_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +       mask = bitmap_zalloc(nr_ids, GFP_ATOMIC);
> >         if (!mask) {
> >                 rcu_read_unlock();
> >                 return -ENOMEM;
> 
> sysfs isn't a good reason to use GFP_ATOMIC.
> 
> try something like this:
> 
> -       mask = bitmap_zalloc(nr_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
> +       mask = bitmap_zalloc(nr_ids, GFP_NOWAIT);
>         if (!mask) {
> +               int new_nr_ids;
> +
>                 rcu_read_unlock();
> -               return -ENOMEM;
> +               mask = bitmap_zalloc(nr_ids, GFP_KERNEL);
> +               if (!mask)
> +                       return -ENOMEM;
> +               rcu_read_lock();
> +               dev_maps = rcu_dereference(dev->xps_maps[type]);
> +               /* if nr_ids shrank while we slept, do not overrun array.
> +                * if it increased, we just won't show the new ones
> +                */
> +               new_nr_ids = dev_maps ? dev_maps->nr_ids :
> +                       (type == XPS_CPUS ? nr_cpu_ids : dev->num_rx_queues);
> +               if (new_nr_ids < nr_ids)
> +                       nr_ids = new_nr_ids;

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that. We could also just
return -ENOMEM if the first allocation fails, retrying adds a lot of
complexity.

Antoine