Re: inconsistent lock/deadlock crash, vanilla 3.3.4, 32bit, tcp

[Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@visp.net.lb>]

On 2012-04-29 11:27, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>
> OK, so when we have memory pressure we can call
> percpu_counter_read_positive() with SOFTIRQ enabled, and lockdep
> complains...
>
> This bug was probably added in 2008, in commit 1748376b6626a
> (net: Use a percpu_counter for sockets_allocated)
>
> I'll have to backport the following patch, can you test it please ?
>
> Thanks !
>
>  net/core/sock.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
> index b2e14c0..08fc929 100644
> --- a/net/core/sock.c
> +++ b/net/core/sock.c
> @@ -1818,7 +1818,9 @@ int __sk_mem_schedule(struct sock *sk, int
> size, int kind)
>
>  		if (!sk_under_memory_pressure(sk))
>  			return 1;
> +		local_bh_disable();
>  		alloc = sk_sockets_allocated_read_positive(sk);
> +		local_bh_enable();
>  		if (sk_prot_mem_limits(sk, 2) > alloc *
>  		    sk_mem_pages(sk->sk_wmem_queued +
>  				 atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) +

I will try to deploy it and test as soon as someone will powercycle 
server on other side.