2003-03-05 08:39:37

by Jochen Hein

Subject: [2.5.64, IPv6] sleeping function called from illegal context

The console output is:

Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at
include/linux/rwsem.h:43
Call Trace:
[<c0116478>] __might_sleep+0x54/0x5c
[<c01cab41>] crypto_alg_lookup+0x21/0xc8
[<c01cb971>] crypto_alg_mod_lookup+0xd/0x2c
[<c01cacfd>] crypto_alloc_tfm+0x11/0xc0
[<c02c1240>] __ipv6_regen_rndid+0xa0/0x1f4
[<c01149fd>] wake_up_process+0xd/0x14
[<c02c13c2>] ipv6_regen_rndid+0x2e/0xc4
[<c011eeb9>] run_timer_softirq+0xf1/0x144
[<c02c1394>] ipv6_regen_rndid+0x0/0xc4
[<c011b761>] do_softirq+0x51/0xb0
[<c010a230>] do_IRQ+0x114/0x130
[<c0106f54>] default_idle+0x0/0x34
[<c0106f54>] default_idle+0x0/0x34
[<c0108ea0>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
[<c0106f54>] default_idle+0x0/0x34
[<c0106f54>] default_idle+0x0/0x34
[<c0106f7a>] default_idle+0x26/0x34
[<c0107009>] cpu_idle+0x35/0x44
[<c0105000>] rest_init+0x0/0x5c
[<c0105055>] rest_init+0x55/0x5c

__ipv6_regen_rndid(): too short regeneration interval; timer diabled
for eth0.

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2003-03-05 09:12:43

by James Morris

Subject: Re: [2.5.64, IPv6] sleeping function called from illegal context

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Jochen Hein wrote:
>
> The console output is:
>
> Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at
> include/linux/rwsem.h:43
> Call Trace:
> [<c0116478>] __might_sleep+0x54/0x5c
> [<c01cab41>] crypto_alg_lookup+0x21/0xc8
> [<c01cb971>] crypto_alg_mod_lookup+0xd/0x2c
> [<c01cacfd>] crypto_alloc_tfm+0x11/0xc0
> [<c02c1240>] __ipv6_regen_rndid+0xa0/0x1f4
> [<c01149fd>] wake_up_process+0xd/0x14
> [<c02c13c2>] ipv6_regen_rndid+0x2e/0xc4
> [<c011eeb9>] run_timer_softirq+0xf1/0x144
> [<c02c1394>] ipv6_regen_rndid+0x0/0xc4
> [<c011b761>] do_softirq+0x51/0xb0
> [<c010a230>] do_IRQ+0x114/0x130
> [<c0106f54>] default_idle+0x0/0x34
> [<c0106f54>] default_idle+0x0/0x34
> [<c0108ea0>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
> [<c0106f54>] default_idle+0x0/0x34
> [<c0106f54>] default_idle+0x0/0x34
> [<c0106f7a>] default_idle+0x26/0x34
> [<c0107009>] cpu_idle+0x35/0x44
> [<c0105000>] rest_init+0x0/0x5c
> [<c0105055>] rest_init+0x55/0x5c
>
> __ipv6_regen_rndid(): too short regeneration interval; timer diabled
> for eth0.

Crypto transforms cannot be allocated in interrupt context or while
holding a spinlock. It seems that at least the latter is happening in
ipv6_regen_rndid().

The transform needs to be allocated prior to use in this case.


- James
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