Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm2 - sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2502

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:55 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> Here and up we are in netlink code which does netlink_trim to reduce
> the skb data size before queing to socket.  This does skb_clone with
> gfp_any() flag.  We aren't in softirq, so we get GFP_KERNEL flag set
> even though in_atomic() is true (spin_lock held I'm assuming).

netlink_unicast() is only calling skb_clone() because we artificially
increased the refcount on the skb in question. 

As I understand it, we do that in order to prevent the skb from being
lost if netlink_unicast() returns an error -- it normally frees the skb
before returning in that case. Am I alone in thinking that behaviour is
strange?

I'm really not fond of the refcount trick -- I suspect I'd be happier if
we were just to try to keep track of sk_rmem_alloc so we never hit the
condition in netlink_attachskb() which might cause it to fail.

-- 
dwmw2