[PKTGEN]: Sleeping function called under lock
pktgen is calling kmalloc GFP_KERNEL and vmalloc with lock held.
The simplest fix is to turn the lock into a semaphore, since the
thread lock is only used for admin control from user context.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index 00116d8..8a90bf7 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@
#define T_REMDEV (1<<3) /* Remove all devs */
/* Locks */
-#define thread_lock() spin_lock(&_thread_lock)
-#define thread_unlock() spin_unlock(&_thread_lock)
+#define thread_lock() down(&pktgen_sem)
+#define thread_unlock() up(&pktgen_sem)
/* If lock -- can be removed after some work */
#define if_lock(t) spin_lock(&(t->if_lock));
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@
static int pg_clone_skb_d = 0;
static int debug = 0;
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(_thread_lock);
+static DECLARE_MUTEX(pktgen_sem);
static struct pktgen_thread *pktgen_threads = NULL;
static char module_fname[128];
