3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@163.com>


[ Upstream commit f146e872eb12ebbe92d8e583b2637e0741440db3 ]

The kernel may sleep under a rcu read lock in cfpkt_create_pfx, and the
function call path is:
cfcnfg_linkup_rsp (acquire the lock by rcu_read_lock)
  cfctrl_linkdown_req
    cfpkt_create
      cfpkt_create_pfx
        alloc_skb(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep
cfserl_receive (acquire the lock by rcu_read_lock)
  cfpkt_split
    cfpkt_create_pfx
      alloc_skb(GFP_KERNEL) --> may sleep

There is "in_interrupt" in cfpkt_create_pfx to decide use "GFP_KERNEL" or
"GFP_ATOMIC". In this situation, "GFP_KERNEL" is used because the function
is called under a rcu read lock, instead in interrupt.

To fix it, only "GFP_ATOMIC" is used in cfpkt_create_pfx.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@163.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/caif/cfpkt_skbuff.c |    6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/net/caif/cfpkt_skbuff.c
+++ b/net/caif/cfpkt_skbuff.c
@@ -81,11 +81,7 @@ static struct cfpkt *cfpkt_create_pfx(u1
 {
        struct sk_buff *skb;
 
-       if (likely(in_interrupt()))
-               skb = alloc_skb(len + pfx, GFP_ATOMIC);
-       else
-               skb = alloc_skb(len + pfx, GFP_KERNEL);
-
+       skb = alloc_skb(len + pfx, GFP_ATOMIC);
        if (unlikely(skb == NULL))
                return NULL;
 


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