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net: don't use in_atomic() in gfp_any()

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The problem is that in_atomic() will return false inside spinlocks if
CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.  This will lead to deadlockable GFP_KERNEL allocations
from spinlocked regions.

Secondly, if CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, this bug solves itself because networking
will instead use GFP_ATOMIC from this callsite.  Hence we won't get the
might_sleep() debugging warnings which would have informed us of the buggy
callsites.

Solve both these problems by switching to in_interrupt().  Now, if someone
runs a gfp_any() allocation from inside spinlock we will get the warning
if CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.

I reviewed all callsites and most of them were too complex for my little
brain and none of them documented their interface requirements.  I have no
idea what this patch will do.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Andrew Morton 2009-02-12 16:43:17 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent fb0886745a
commit 9970937273
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include/net/sock.h
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@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ static inline int sock_writeable(const struct sock *sk)
static inline gfp_t gfp_any(void)
{
return in_atomic() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
return in_softirq() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
}
static inline long sock_rcvtimeo(const struct sock *sk, int noblock)