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Revision dfb2ea45becb198beeb75350d0b7b7ad9076a38f authored by Eric W. Biederman on 22 December 2012, 04:38:00 UTC, committed by Eric W. Biederman on 26 December 2012, 00:23:12 UTC
While testing the pid namespace code I hit this nasty warning.

[  176.262617] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  176.263388] WARNING: at /home/eric/projects/linux/linux-userns-devel/kernel/softirq.c:160 local_bh_enable_ip+0x7a/0xa0()
[  176.265145] Hardware name: Bochs
[  176.265677] Modules linked in:
[  176.266341] Pid: 742, comm: bash Not tainted 3.7.0userns+ #18
[  176.266564] Call Trace:
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff810a539f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff810a53fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff810ad9ea>] local_bh_enable_ip+0x7a/0xa0
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff819308c9>] _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x19/0x20
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff8123dbda>] proc_free_inum+0x3a/0x50
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff8111d0dc>] free_pid_ns+0x1c/0x80
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff8111d195>] put_pid_ns+0x35/0x50
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff810c608a>] put_pid+0x4a/0x60
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff8146b177>] tty_ioctl+0x717/0xc10
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff810aa4d5>] ? wait_consider_task+0x855/0xb90
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff81086bf9>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x9/0x10
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff810cab0a>] ? remove_wait_queue+0x5a/0x70
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff811e37e8>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x98/0x550
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff810b8a0f>] ? recalc_sigpending+0x1f/0x60
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff810b9127>] ? __set_task_blocked+0x37/0x80
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff810ab95b>] ? sys_wait4+0xab/0xf0
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff811e3d31>] sys_ioctl+0x91/0xb0
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff810a95f0>] ? task_stopped_code+0x50/0x50
[  176.266564]  [<ffffffff81939199>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  176.266564] ---[ end trace 387af88219ad6143 ]---

It turns out that spin_unlock_bh(proc_inum_lock) is not safe when
put_pid is called with another spinlock held and irqs disabled.

For now take the easy path and use spin_lock_irqsave(proc_inum_lock)
in proc_free_inum and spin_loc_irq in proc_alloc_inum(proc_inum_lock).

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Tip revision: dfb2ea45becb198beeb75350d0b7b7ad9076a38f authored by Eric W. Biederman on 22 December 2012, 04:38:00 UTC
proc: Allow proc_free_inum to be called from any context
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