Re: 2.6.15-rc2-mm1

[Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:22:18AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> >  include/asm/semaphore.h:123
> >  in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> >   [<c0103be6>] dump_stack+0x17/0x19
> >   [<c011a0c3>] __might_sleep+0x9c/0xae
> >   [<fd9a090d>] translate_table+0x147/0xc14 [ip_tables]
> >   [<fd9a2b2a>] ipt_register_table+0x93/0x20d [ip_tables]
> >   [<f98fe027>] init+0x27/0x9e [iptable_filter]
> >   [<c01376d0>] sys_init_module+0xd7/0x26c
> >   [<c0102cc7>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
> >  ---------------------------
> >  | preempt count: 00000001 ]
> >  | 1 level deep critical section nesting:
> >  ----------------------------------------
> >  .. [<fd9a2aca>] .... ipt_register_table+0x33/0x20d [ip_tables]
> >  .....[<f98fe027>] ..   ( <= init+0x27/0x9e [iptable_filter])
> > 
> 
> ipt_register_table() does get_cpu() then calls translate_table(), and
> somewhere under translate_table() we do something which sleeps, only I'm not
> sure what it is - netfilter likes to hide things in unexpected places.

I'll investigate this.  the get_cpu() scheme was introduced as a fix for
a different (less serious) problem.  

You'll get a reply until later today.

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- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>                 http://netfilter.org/
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