Bug 597334
Summary: | reg_regdb_search_lock calls kmalloc while holding spinlock | ||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | John W. Linville <linville> | ||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | John W. Linville <linville> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | low | ||||||
Version: | 5.6 | ||||||
Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2011-01-13 21:34:57 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. in kernel-2.6.18-203.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/jwilson/el5 Detailed testing feedback is always welcomed. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html |
Created attachment 417685 [details] jwltest-wireless_-convert-reg_regdb_search_lock_to_mutex.patch Stanse discovered that kmalloc is being called with GFP_KERNEL while holding this spinlock. The spinlock can be a mutex instead, which also enables the removal of the unlock/lock around the lock/unlock of cfg80211_mutex and the call to set_regdom.