2.6.12-rc4-mm2 - sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/slab.c:2502

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Thu, 19 May 2005 12:34:08 BST, David Woodhouse said:
> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 12:24 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> > [4295584.974000] Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context
> > at mm/slab.c:2502

> OK, we'll just let audit_log() assemble its own skb and queue it for a
> separate kernel thread to feed up to auditd. We'll fix up the horrid
> error handling mess we had before too, where we used to clone the skb
> because we know netlink_unicast() would free it even on temporary errors
> (like the SO_RCVBUF limit being reached).
> 
> This includes one of Steve's earlier patches which ensures that messages
> in the skb are NUL-terminated. It should all appear some time soon in
> http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/audit-2.6.git;a
=summary
> or more perhaps more usefully (since Thomas allows us to distinguish
> between local and merged commits) in
> http://www.tglx.de/cgi-bin/gittracker/commit/tracker-linux/audit-2.6.git?proj
ect=tracker-linux%2Fdwmw2%2Faudit-2.6.git&pagelen=10&exclude=tracker-linux%2Fto
rvalds%2Flinux-2.6.git&offset=0
> 
> Index: kernel/audit.c
> ===================================================================
> --- e45ee43e7af31f847377e8bb3a0a61581732b653/kernel/audit.c  (mode:100644)
> +++ c1096ff7ae35b77bf8108c3a60b856551c50a9d7/kernel/audit.c  (mode:100644)

Patch applies with a few offsets against 12-rc4-mm2, and I'm not
seeing the messages any more...
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