kernel-hardening - Re: linux-next - modprobe causes BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:393

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Message-ID: <877fc69cnn.fsf@d080-201.cis.zmaw.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:21:00 +0200
From: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>
To: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next - modprobe causes BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:393

Hi Valdis,

Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> writes:

> This ring any bells for anybody?
>
> [   20.418310] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.h:393
> [   20.420592] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 679, name: systemd-udevd
> [   20.423143] no locks held by systemd-udevd/679.
> [   20.423147] CPU: 3 PID: 679 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 4.7.0-next-20160727-dirty #339
> [   20.423149] Hardware name: Dell Inc. Latitude E6530/07Y85M, BIOS A17 08/19/2015
> [   20.423152]  0000000000000000 000000007e9484e4 ffff97a022bd78d8 ffffffff976f0c0a
> [   20.423159]  ffffffff984cd7ff 000000007e9484e4 ffff97a01e72d300 ffff97a01e72d988
> [   20.423166]  ffff97a022bd7910 ffffffff97105d06 ffff97a01e72d300 ffffffff984cd7ff
> [   20.423172] Call Trace:
> [   20.423180]  [<ffffffff976f0c0a>] dump_stack+0x7b/0xd1
> [   20.423185]  [<ffffffff97105d06>] ___might_sleep+0x196/0x2f0
> [   20.423190]  [<ffffffff97105ec5>] __might_sleep+0x65/0x1f0
> [   20.423195]  [<ffffffff97377a4c>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2fc/0x4f0
> [   20.423200]  [<ffffffff9771459b>] ? sg_miter_get_next_page+0x3b/0xe0
> [   20.423204]  [<ffffffff97766b70>] mpi_alloc+0x20/0xa0
> [   20.423208]  [<ffffffff977617cf>] mpi_read_raw_from_sgl+0x11f/0x4e0
> [   20.423211]  [<ffffffff97377aad>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x35d/0x4f0
> [   20.423216]  [<ffffffff9764ecc8>] rsa_verify+0xc8/0x170
> [   20.423220]  [<ffffffff97650a59>] pkcs1pad_verify+0x169/0x250
> [   20.423225]  [<ffffffff97141952>] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x52/0xa0
> [   20.423230]  [<ffffffff97694fc1>] public_key_verify_signature+0x2c1/0x450
> [   20.423236]  [<ffffffff9715791d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
> [   20.423240]  [<ffffffff97695176>] public_key_verify_signature_2+0x26/0x40
> [   20.423244]  [<ffffffff976947bb>] verify_signature+0x4b/0x80
> [   20.423248]  [<ffffffff97698f15>] pkcs7_validate_trust+0x2c5/0x3c0
> [   20.423253]  [<ffffffff972bd1a5>] verify_pkcs7_signature+0x125/0x160
> [   20.423257]  [<ffffffff9734de3b>] ? vmap_page_range_noflush+0x31b/0x4f0
> [   20.423263]  [<ffffffff971cdc00>] mod_verify_sig+0x100/0x170
> [   20.423267]  [<ffffffff971ca8d7>] load_module+0x177/0x22b0
> [   20.423272]  [<ffffffff971ccb7d>] SYSC_init_module+0x16d/0x190
> [   20.423277]  [<ffffffff971ccc9e>] SyS_init_module+0xe/0x10
> [   20.423280]  [<ffffffff9700419f>] do_syscall_64+0x8f/0x240
> [   20.423284]  [<ffffffff9810865a>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25

Please see the thread rooted at
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d1lyiygu.fsf@gmail.com

Herbert Xu has provided a fix for this already (which works for me).

Thanks,

Nicolai

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