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Date:   Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:08:00 +0200
From:   Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc:     Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH mm] mm: fix BUG with kvzalloc+GFP_ATOMIC
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Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:
> +		old_tbl = rht_dereference_rcu(ht->tbl, ht);
> +		size = tbl->size;
> +
> +		data = ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
> +
> +		if (rht_grow_above_75(ht, tbl))
> +			size *= 2;
> +		/* Do not schedule more than one rehash */
> +		else if (old_tbl != tbl)
> +			return data;
> +
> +		data = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +
> +		rcu_read_unlock();
> +		new_tbl = bucket_table_alloc(ht, size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		rcu_read_lock();

I don't think this is going to work, there can be callers that
rely on rcu protected data structures getting free'd.

Also, network stack assumes synchronize_rcu() means that all
inflight packets have completed processing.